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Risk Regulation Lesson from Mad Cows analyses and compares the policy responses in the U.K. and U.S. to the mad cow disease crisis. The…
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The mad cow disease crisis in the United Kingdom (U.K.) was a major policy disaster. The government and public health officials failed to…
The plight of the Affordable Care Act Web site has focused attention on a problem that seldom receives it — the absence of good management…
Professor Burns discusses the high-stakes diplomatic talks in Geneva between Iran and the United States, and the diplomatic strategies at…
Washington, D.C. is again in the grip of its long-running budgetary soap opera. Episode 1, “Fiscal Cliffs,” was followed shortly by “…
The federal government shutdown has done serious harm to the public and threatens to create even more havoc as it veers toward a once…
Whatever loathing voters feel toward Washington, D.C., it is a fair bet they make an exception for America’s national parks — immortalized…
In 2011, Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for U.S. and Canadian…