Redistricting Reform Could Save California from Itself

Could Your Pet Save Your Life?

Could shame and honor save cooperation?

Shame and honor are mechanisms that expose behavior that falls outside the social norm. With recent six-player public goods experiments, we demonstrated that the threat of shame or the promise of honor led to increased cooperation. Participants were told in advance that after ten rounds two participants would be asked to come forward and write their names on the board in front of the fellow gro...

Planetary science. Voyager 1 crosses a new frontier and may save itself from termination.

Interest groups and health reform: lessons from California.

We review the 1992 policy choices in California for expanding health insurance coverage, focusing on the rejection of an employer mandate by legislators and voters. We analyze how interest-group politics, gubernatorial politics, and national politics shaped those choices. Although public opinion and the shift of organized medicine showed considerable support for extending health insurance cover...

How CER could pay for itself--insights from vertebral fracture treatments.

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