DELEGATION AND INFORMATION transfer IN policy implementation NETWORKS
Policies establishing public and private regulatory systems are reviewed to identify all principal-agent (delegatory) relationships and reporting requirements (information transfer). Implementation networks are compared by both sequential and parallel complexity.
SOCIAL DISTANCING effects IN local and GLOBAL MARKETS
Content analysis of issue-relevant English and Spanish language print media of terms associated with 25+ conceptual categories. The proportional salience of each category is compared across media segments, demonstrating significant "signal attenuation" of multiple categories by geographical and epistemic distance.
eNVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL LABELING — MARKET-DRIVEN PUBLIC POLICY
In-depth study of a range of global, national and local non-state regulatory systems, including multi-stakeholder stewardship standards, accreditation and certification systems, chain-of-custody tracking, and process-based approaches. Emphasis on environmental, social and economic factors in sustainable forest management.
COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL AND
NATURAL RESOURCE POLICY
Global study of environmental and natural resource policies, especially models of stakeholder roles in monitoring and the generation of baseline environmental knowledge. Emphasis on contexts with weaker institutional capacity, including neoliberal regimes, developing countries, and non-state regulatory approaches.
Modeling Integrated Environmental, Social and Economic Systems
Dynamic simulation designed to broadly encompass economic, ecological, and social characteristics of tourism development on the Commonwealth of Dominica. Combines econometric statistics, ecological theory, and social cohesion dynamics to recognize positive and negative impacts of tourism on local wellbeing.
semi-automated EXTRACTIon of real-world SOCIAL STRUCTUREs FROM online CONTENT
Entity names are identified from phrase concordances of online content pertaining to a given subject. Sociomatrices are generated based on co-occurrence of entity names at the document, paragraph or sentence level and mapped as network diagrams. Results compare favorably with manual methods of mapping the social networks.
EVOLUTION OF LEGAL DOCTRINE ACROSS FEDERAL APPELLATE COURTS
Federal court decisions relevant to an emergent legal doctrine (regulatory takings) are analyzed for citations to prior opinions (based on the legal principle of stare decisis), to compare expectations of de jure authority with evidence of emergent, de facto authority within specific US Circuit courts.
neoliberalISM and effective institutional autonomy
Historical study of the emergence and spread of neoliberal laissez faire ideologies and public policy reforms, especially the establishment of policy autonomy from democratic institutions. Comparing political processes before, during and after reforms in Chile and New Zealand.