Norman J Vig
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1116616 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Norman J Vig |
| NOMBRES | Norman J |
| APELLIDO | Vig |
| FIRMA | VIG N J |
| AFILIACIONES | Carleton College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Environmental Policy
Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics
Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives . Farnum, UK : Ashgate Publishing Ltd . xvi + 326 pages. ISBN 978-0-7546-7597-6 , £60.00 cloth. Edited by Miranda A. Schreurs, Henrik Selin, and Stacy D. VanDeveer . 2009 . With the end of the Cold War and the emergence of the European Union (EU) as a single market and ever more powerful governance system in the 1990s, new strains began to develop in the Atl…
Green Giants?
The United States in recent years has been abandoning its historical role as a leader in environmental regulation. At the same time, the European Union, spurred by political integration, has enacted many new environmental laws and assumed a leadership role in promoting global environmental sustainability. Green Giants?, one of the most detailed comparisons of the environmental policies of America and Europe yet undertaken, looks at current policy…
Conclusion
United States
Technology and Politics
Technology and technological change are perhaps the most important forces shaping domestic politics, international relations, the economy, and our individual life styles. Vig describes three abstract views of the role of technology in society. According to the instrumentalism view,â it is the human beings who create and use technology that make it a force for good or evil: technology itself is considered morally neutral.â According to the social …
Technology and Politics
Environmental Policy in the 1980s
Environmental Policy in the Reagan Presidency
The Reagan administration is rapidly gaining a reputation as one of the most effective presidencies in recent history. At least in domestic policy, President Reagan has accomplished greater change in less time than any administration since Franklin D. Roosevelt's hundred days. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of pQlicy, where the administration has tried to reverse a cycle begun fifteen years ago. Notwithstanding intense opposition …
The Courts and Risk Assessment1
In the past decade the federal courts have come to play an important role in reviewing agency decision-making on prospective risks. Questioning the conventional wisdom that judges are poorly equipped for the task, the authors outline the range of choices facing courts in such cases and contend that they cannot avoid making ultimate decisions on risk policy. However, recent Supreme Court cases on nuclear hazards and occupational benzene indicate n…
Post-Keynesian Economics and Politics
Recent economic theory places growing emphasis on the importance of psychological expectations in economic behavior and policy implementation. This article reviews four recent books on political economy which analyze failures in Keynesian macroeconomic management in light of social and political pressures in advanced democratic nations (especially Britain and the United States). Public choice theories focusing on the myopic behavior of voters and…
Environmental Policy in the 1980s
Environmental Policy in the Reagan Presidency
The Reagan administration is rapidly gaining a reputation as one of the most effective presidencies in recent history. At least in domestic policy, President Reagan has accomplished greater change in less time than any administration since Franklin D. Roosevelt's hundred days. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of pQlicy, where the administration has tried to reverse a cycle begun fifteen years ago. Notwithstanding intense opposition …
Post-Keynesian Economics and Politics
Recent economic theory places growing emphasis on the importance of psychological expectations in economic behavior and policy implementation. This article reviews four recent books on political economy which analyze failures in Keynesian macroeconomic management in light of social and political pressures in advanced democratic nations (especially Britain and the United States). Public choice theories focusing on the myopic behavior of voters and…
The Courts and Risk Assessment1
In the past decade the federal courts have come to play an important role in reviewing agency decision-making on prospective risks. Questioning the conventional wisdom that judges are poorly equipped for the task, the authors outline the range of choices facing courts in such cases and contend that they cannot avoid making ultimate decisions on risk policy. However, recent Supreme Court cases on nuclear hazards and occupational benzene indicate n…
Post-Keynesian Economics and Politics
Recent economic theory places growing emphasis on the importance of psychological expectations in economic behavior and policy implementation. This article reviews four recent books on political economy which analyze failures in Keynesian macroeconomic management in light of social and political pressures in advanced democratic nations (especially Britain and the United States). Public choice theories focusing on the myopic behavior of voters and…
The Courts and Risk Assessment1
In the past decade the federal courts have come to play an important role in reviewing agency decision-making on prospective risks. Questioning the conventional wisdom that judges are poorly equipped for the task, the authors outline the range of choices facing courts in such cases and contend that they cannot avoid making ultimate decisions on risk policy. However, recent Supreme Court cases on nuclear hazards and occupational benzene indicate n…
Environmental Policy in the 1980s
Environmental Policy in the Reagan Presidency
The Reagan administration is rapidly gaining a reputation as one of the most effective presidencies in recent history. At least in domestic policy, President Reagan has accomplished greater change in less time than any administration since Franklin D. Roosevelt's hundred days. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of pQlicy, where the administration has tried to reverse a cycle begun fifteen years ago. Notwithstanding intense opposition …
Technology and Politics
Technology and Politics
Technology and technological change are perhaps the most important forces shaping domestic politics, international relations, the economy, and our individual life styles. Vig describes three abstract views of the role of technology in society. According to the instrumentalism view,â it is the human beings who create and use technology that make it a force for good or evil: technology itself is considered morally neutral.â According to the social …
United States
Green Giants?
The United States in recent years has been abandoning its historical role as a leader in environmental regulation. At the same time, the European Union, spurred by political integration, has enacted many new environmental laws and assumed a leadership role in promoting global environmental sustainability. Green Giants?, one of the most detailed comparisons of the environmental policies of America and Europe yet undertaken, looks at current policy…
Conclusion
Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics
Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives . Farnum, UK : Ashgate Publishing Ltd . xvi + 326 pages. ISBN 978-0-7546-7597-6 , £60.00 cloth. Edited by Miranda A. Schreurs, Henrik Selin, and Stacy D. VanDeveer . 2009 . With the end of the Cold War and the emergence of the European Union (EU) as a single market and ever more powerful governance system in the 1990s, new strains began to develop in the Atl…
Environmental Policy
Political science (9 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Economics (5 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Political economy (3 obras) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 obras) · Business (2 obras) · Computer Science (2 obras) · Political theory and Gramsci (2 obras)