Political Perspectives on Geoengineering: Navigating Problem Definition and Institutional Fit

The problem of functional assessment: political and economic perspectives.

I ndustrialized counrries have long accerted the need 10 provide various suppons for people with disabilities. The common inrerest is to I'elate the benefits received by the person with a disability to a medical impairmenr and to the limitations the impairment places on function in the workplace. The purpose of this anicle is to discuss some of the inrernational and American approaches to the e...

Geoengineering as a design problem

Understanding the climate impacts of solar geoengineering is essential for evaluating its benefits and risks. Most previous simulations have prescribed a particular strategy and evaluated its modeled effects. Here we turn this approach around by first choosing example climate objectives and then designing a strategy to meet those objectives in climate models. There are four essential criteria f...

Archaeological Perspectives on Political Economies

1 Navigating Complex Problem

Recent Economic Perspectives on Political Economy

In recent years some of the best theoretical work on the political economy of political institutions and processes has begun surfacing outside the political science mainstream in high quality economics journals. This two-part paper surveys these contributions from a recent five-year period. In Part I, the focus is on elections, voting and information aggregation, followed by treatments of parti...