Thompson, Michael
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World
1. The Case for Clumsiness
Marco Verweij, Mary Douglas, Richard Ellis, Christoph Engel, Frank Hendriks, Susanne Lohmann, Steven Ney, Steve Rayner, Michael Thompson
Part I. Elegant Failures
2. Is the Kyoto Protocol Merely Irrelevant, or Positively Harmful, for the Efforts to Curb Climate Change?
Marco Verweij
3. Hype and Hydro (and, at Last, Some Hope) in the Himalaya
Dipak Gyawali
4. Segregation through Anti-Discrimination: How the Netherlands Got Divided Again
Mark Bovens, Margo Trappenburg
5. What Russia Can Learn from China in its Transition to a Market Economy
Michael D. Intriligator, Janine R. Wedel, Catherine H. Lee
6. The Failure of Seat Belts Legislation
John Adams
Part II. Clumsy Solutions
7. Gunfight at the Consequentialist Corral: The Deadlock in the United States over Firearms Control, and How to Break it
Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman, John Gastil
8. Floods and Fairness in Hungary
Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Anna Vári, Michael Thompson
9. Inclusive by Design: The Curious Case Of the Internet
Tommy Tranvik, Michael Thompson
10. You Never Miss the Water till the Well Runs Dry: Crisis and Creativity in California
Denise Lach, Helen Ingram, Steve Rayner
11. Clumsy Conclusions: How to Do Policy and Research in a Complex World
Marco Verweij, Michael Thompson, Christoph Engel
Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Science, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Environmental Geography, Public Policy, Social Theory
- Editor
- Thompson, Michael
- Verweij, Marco
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2006
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Global Issues Series
- Page amount
- 268 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230624887
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-28058-2