Ken Fearon

Patterns in current perioperative practice: survey of colorectal surgeons in five northern European countries.

Evidence for optimal perioperative care in colorectal surgery is abundant. By avoiding fasting, intravenous fluid overload, and activation of the neuroendocrine stress response, postoperative catabolism is reduced and recovery enhanced. The specific measures that can be used routinely include no bowel preparation, epidural anaesthesia/analgesia continued for one to two days postoperatively, no ...

The Power of the Last Word in Legislative Policy Making∗

We examine legislative policy making in institutions with two empirically relevant features: agenda setting occurs in real time, and the default policy evolves. We demonstrate that these institutions select Condorcet winners when they exist provided a sufficient number of individuals have opportunities to make proposals. In policy spaces with either pork barrel or pure redistributional politics...

Assessing Intermediate Coronary Lesions: More than Meets the Eye Running title: Fearon; Intermediate Lesions

IMMUNOBIOLOGY: IL-10 Regulates Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Response to CpG Containing ImmunoStimulatory Sequences

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Symposium: Case Selection, Case Studies, and Causal Inference Introduction

For scholars concerned with causal inference, how should cases be selected in case study research? This symposium builds on previously published arguments by James Fearon and David Laitin (2008), who favor random sampling in case study analysis, and by John Gerring (2008), who favors purposive selection. The statistician David Freedman—long an advocate of case studies as an important research t...