Most graduate school training for United States-based political scientists focuses on details ranging from properly...

This article seeks to explain how, given Japan’s “nuclear allergy” following World War II, a...

To meet the dire need for housing created by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in...

While a large literature exists on the siting of controversial facilities, few theories about spatial...

One of the most vexing problems for governments is building controversial facilities that serve the...

One of the most vexing problems for governments is building controversial facilities that serve the...

Scholars have argued that there is a broad gender gap in support for the long-ruling...

Analysts have long sought to understand whether women and men have different ethical orientations. Some...

Over the past fifty years, Japan has developed one of the most advanced commercial nuclear...

Despite the tremendous destruction wrought by catastrophes, social science holds few quantitative assessments of explanations...

Much research has implied that social capital functions as an unqualified “public good,” enhancing governance,...

In this extended review, I discuss three recent books on disaster: Governing after Crisis: The...

Despite the regularity of disasters, social science has only begun to generate replicable knowledge about...

Disasters remain among the most critical events which impact residents and their neighborhoods; they have...

Objective. Disasters are a regular occurrence throughout the world. Whether all eligible victims of a...

This article is concerned with the empirical puzzle of why certain neighborhoods and localities recover...