Articles

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The Precautionary Principle in Context: US and EU Scientists’ Prescriptions for Policy in the Face of Uncertainty (with Carol L. Silva), Social Science Quarterly (2007)

Objective. Our objective is to explain how scientists interpret less-than-certain scientific findings to inform policymakers’...

 

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Micro and Macro Level Explanations of the Presidential Expectations Gap (with Carol L. Silva and Richard Waterman), Journal of Politics (2005)

The idea that the public expects more from its presidents than they are able to...

 

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United States Public Response to Terrorism: Fault Lines or Bedrock? (with Kerry G. Herron), Review of Policy Research (2005)

We test traditional assumptions about the volatility of mass opinion in times of national crises...

 

Unpublished Papers

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Public Perspectives on the Nuclear Future (with Kerry G. Herron) (2009)

Policy experts have traditionally relegated public opinion to the sidelines where US nuclear weapons policy...