In this article, we theorize a novel approach to addressing the world's grand challenges
based on the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism and the sociological concept of …

Once created, institutions often change in subtle and gradual ways over time. Although less
dramatic than abrupt and wholesale transformations, these slow and piecemeal changes …

This article examines the application of organizational reputation to public administration.
Organizational reputation is defined as a set of beliefs about an organization's capacities …

Prior to that time, bureaucratic reputation in the public sector was rarely mentioned in
institutional political science, which instead largely focused on political control of …

The overall aims of this chapter are to compare the use of randomised evaluations in
medicine and economics and to assess their ability to provide impartial evidence about …

Communicable disease control might be one of the oldest and most important functions of
the modern state, but it receives very little attention today. This article introduces a special …

Over the past few decades, a variety of groups have begun to argue that the US and
European patent systems do not adequately represent the public interest in their decision …

During the 1990s, the International Monetary Fund failed to develop clear exchange rate
policy norms for developing countries, despite the fact that oversight of the international …

Randomized controlled trials test new drugs using various debiasing devices to prevent
participants from manipulating the trials. But participants often dislike controls, arguing that …

I argue that behind the 1962 Food and Drug Administration Act we find a combination of two
normative principles: a liberal argument for the protection of pharmaceutical markets (in …