Cheryl Allyn Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 283032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cheryl Allyn Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cheryl Allyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1078-7754 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 743 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Beyond the imagination gap: Limits, constraints, and opportunities for sustainability research and practice
The literature on transformation suggests an imagination gap, or failure to deploy imagination optimally in conceptualising and mobilising sustainability. Applying a multi-case study, we engaged with four research projects that work across different sustainability transformation domains to understand the imaginative capabilities employed in project design and implementation, as well as the role of imagination in transformative change research. We…
Co-producing new knowledge systems for resilient and just coastal cities: A social-ecological-technological systems framework for data visualization
Ending the Energy-Poverty Nexus: An Ethical Imperative for Just Transitions
Arguments for a just transition are integral to debates about climate change and the drive to create a carbon-neutral economy. There are currently two broad approaches rooted in ethics and justice for framing just energy transitions. The first can be described as internal to the transition and emphasizes the anticipation, assessment, and redressing of harms created by the transition itself and the inclusion in transition governance of groups or c…
Institutional interdependence and infrastructure resilience
Enhancing the resilience of infrastructure to climate change requires attending to the interdependencies that occur among complex configurations of social, ecological, and technological systems (SETS). This entails extending analyses of infrastructure resilience beyond engineering assessments of the physical interdependencies among infrastructure systems to also include assessments of the social and environmental linkages that connect infrastruct…
Deconstructing knowledge and reconstructing understanding: Designing a knowledge architecture for transdisciplinary co‐creation of energy futures
Transdisciplinary approaches for planning and managing sustainability transitions present an opportunity for embedding knowledge making as an integral design element. Collaboratively formulated energy transitions as one such transdisciplinary undertaking, can benefit from the plural integration of knowledge forms to maximize uptake and diffusion of material outcomes, and the principles and values underlying collaborative action. Moreover, reflexi…
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS are useful at better understanding energy-related social science, to reflect on prominent themes and topics within those approaches, and to identify current re…
Co-Producing Sustainability: Reordering the Governance of Science, Policy, and Practice
Co-production has become a cornerstone of research within the sustainability sciences, motivating collaborations of diverse actors to conduct research in the service of societal and policy change. This review examines theoretical and empirical literature from sustainability science, public administration, and science and technology studies (STS) with the intention of advancing the theory and practice of co-production within sustainability science…
Redesigning knowledge systems for urban resilience
The resilience work of institutions
Co-production in global sustainability: Histories and theories
Co-production is one of the most important ideas in the theory and practice of knowledge and governance for global sustainability, including ecology and biodiversity conservation. A core challenge confronting the application of co-production has been confusion over differences in definition and practice across several disciplinary traditions, including sustainability science, public administration, and science and technology studies. In this pape…
Modeling risk in complex bioeconomies
Like all bioeconomies, markets in synthetic biology will reconfigure complex arrangements of coupled social, technological, and biogeophysical systems. These rearrangements will create novel pathways for risks to propagate across and through systems that will be difficult if not impossible to predict or analyze using conventional risk assessment paradigms. To anticipate potential risks, new approaches will be needed to model cross-system dynamics…
The social value of mid-scale energy in Africa: Redefining value and redesigning energy to reduce poverty
Narrative futures and the governance of energy transitions
Towards a Reflexive Turn in the Governance of Global Environmental Expertise. The Cases of the IPCC and the Ipbes
The role and design of global expert organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) needs rethinking. Acknowledging that a one-size-fits-all model does not exist, we suggest a reflexive turn that implies treating the governance of expertise as a matter of political contestation
Socio-energy systems design: A policy framework for energy transitions
The Social Dimensions of Energy Transitions
The future of energy systems is one of the central policy challenges facing industrial countries. This challenge is complex and multifaceted. Energy systems are among the largest human enterprises
Splitting Fees or Splitting Hairs
The Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) prohibits physician fee-splitting; an Illinois bill attempts to carve out an exception to the OIG ban. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Civic Epistemologies: Constituting Knowledge and Order in Political Communities
How do we know things? The question of epistemology – which drives both the sociology and philosophy of science – is also a crucial question for political sociology. Knowledge is essential to even the most basic and foundational of political processes and institutions. In 2000, for example, the transition of power in the US presidential election hung for 36 days on uncertainty over a seemingly simple question of fact: who won the most votes in Fl…
Democratization, International Knowledge Institutions, and Global Governance
The central problem of democracy has long been theorized as how to place appropriate constraints on the responsible exercise of power. Today, this problem is most acute in global governance. This article examines the rapid rise in the creation of international knowledge institutions, arguing that these institutions reflect a growing effort by nations and publics to assert democratic constraints on the on the global exercise of power through their…
Examining the role of Web site information in facilitating different citizen–government relationships: A case study of state Chronic Wasting Disease Web sites
An Effective Instrument Of Peace: Scientific Cooperation As An Instrument Of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1938-1950
The profound transformation of postwar world affairs wrought by science encompassed both competition—driven by the atomic bomb and the growing centrality of science and technology to military as well as economic security during the cold war—and cooperation, driven by the desire to use science, in the words of the 1951 Berkner report, as “an effective instrument of peace.” Of the two, the former has garnered greater attention among scholars and am…
Challenges to Regulatory Harmonization and Standard-Setting: The Case of Environmental Accounting in the US and Canada
Disputes over global standards for economic and financial accounting have become commonplace in international governance since the 1990s. Many of these disputes are rooted in the distributional consequences of proposed standards. Many others reflect significant ideological differences. In this article, we suggest that comparative analysis of regulatory and political culture – the normative and institutional organization of national governance – c…
New Civic Epistemologies of Quantification: Making Sense of Indicators of Local and Global Sustainability
Processes of globalization and decentralization are changing the relationship among statistical knowledge production, nation, and state. This article explores these changes through a comparison of five projects to design and implement indicators of sustainable development to replace conventional measures of economic welfare and social demographics-community sustainability indicators, Metropatterns, greening the gross domestic product, the Living …
Interrogating the Civic Epistemology of American Democracy: Stability and Instability in the 2000 US Presidential Election
Transitions of power are fragile, anxious moments for political systems. This paper explores how electoral machinery - the material and social technologies of casting, counting, and contesting votes - dynamically stabilizes democratic transitions. The paper analyzes the controversy surrounding the 2000 US Presidential election. For 36 days political stability in the USA hung on uncertainty over a seemingly simple matter of fact: which candidate w…
Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance
Hybrid Management: Boundary Organizations, Science Policy, and Environmental Governance in the Climate Regime
The theory of boundary organizations was developed to address an important group of institutions in American society neglected by scholarship in science studies and political science. The long-term stability of scientific and political institutions in the United States has enabled a new class of institutions to grow and thrive as mediators between the two. As originally developed, this structural feature of these new institutions-that is, their l…
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS are useful at better understanding energy-related social science, to reflect on prominent themes and topics within those approaches, and to identify current re…
The Social Dimensions of Energy Transitions
The future of energy systems is one of the central policy challenges facing industrial countries. This challenge is complex and multifaceted. Energy systems are among the largest human enterprises
Co-production in global sustainability: Histories and theories
Co-production is one of the most important ideas in the theory and practice of knowledge and governance for global sustainability, including ecology and biodiversity conservation. A core challenge confronting the application of co-production has been confusion over differences in definition and practice across several disciplinary traditions, including sustainability science, public administration, and science and technology studies. In this pape…
Democratization, International Knowledge Institutions, and Global Governance
The central problem of democracy has long been theorized as how to place appropriate constraints on the responsible exercise of power. Today, this problem is most acute in global governance. This article examines the rapid rise in the creation of international knowledge institutions, arguing that these institutions reflect a growing effort by nations and publics to assert democratic constraints on the on the global exercise of power through their…
Socio-energy systems design: A policy framework for energy transitions
Narrative futures and the governance of energy transitions
Class and Party in the Secession Crisis: Voting Behavior in the Deep South, 1856-1861
Peyton McCrary, Clark Miller, Dale Baum, Class and Party in the Secession Crisis: Voting Behavior in the Deep South, 1856-1861, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Winter, 1978), pp. 429-457
Civic Epistemologies: Constituting Knowledge and Order in Political Communities
How do we know things? The question of epistemology – which drives both the sociology and philosophy of science – is also a crucial question for political sociology. Knowledge is essential to even the most basic and foundational of political processes and institutions. In 2000, for example, the transition of power in the US presidential election hung for 36 days on uncertainty over a seemingly simple question of fact: who won the most votes in Fl…
New Civic Epistemologies of Quantification: Making Sense of Indicators of Local and Global Sustainability
Processes of globalization and decentralization are changing the relationship among statistical knowledge production, nation, and state. This article explores these changes through a comparison of five projects to design and implement indicators of sustainable development to replace conventional measures of economic welfare and social demographics-community sustainability indicators, Metropatterns, greening the gross domestic product, the Living …
Interrogating the Civic Epistemology of American Democracy: Stability and Instability in the 2000 US Presidential Election
Transitions of power are fragile, anxious moments for political systems. This paper explores how electoral machinery - the material and social technologies of casting, counting, and contesting votes - dynamically stabilizes democratic transitions. The paper analyzes the controversy surrounding the 2000 US Presidential election. For 36 days political stability in the USA hung on uncertainty over a seemingly simple matter of fact: which candidate w…
Job Complexity as Perceived by Workers and Experts
Following a symbolic interactionist framework, a study of Chicago-area women aged 25 to 54 focused on their constructed reality including definitions of the complexity of their job. Women in even low status and task complexity occupations, as measured by Duncan and DOT scales, found some dimensions of their jobs 'above average'-such as independence, responsibility, opportunities to see the product of the work, and opportunities for self-developme…
The social value of mid-scale energy in Africa: Redefining value and redesigning energy to reduce poverty
Redesigning knowledge systems for urban resilience
Deconstructing knowledge and reconstructing understanding: Designing a knowledge architecture for transdisciplinary co‐creation of energy futures
Transdisciplinary approaches for planning and managing sustainability transitions present an opportunity for embedding knowledge making as an integral design element. Collaboratively formulated energy transitions as one such transdisciplinary undertaking, can benefit from the plural integration of knowledge forms to maximize uptake and diffusion of material outcomes, and the principles and values underlying collaborative action. Moreover, reflexi…
The resilience work of institutions
Challenges to Regulatory Harmonization and Standard-Setting: The Case of Environmental Accounting in the US and Canada
Disputes over global standards for economic and financial accounting have become commonplace in international governance since the 1990s. Many of these disputes are rooted in the distributional consequences of proposed standards. Many others reflect significant ideological differences. In this article, we suggest that comparative analysis of regulatory and political culture – the normative and institutional organization of national governance – c…
Co-producing new knowledge systems for resilient and just coastal cities: A social-ecological-technological systems framework for data visualization
Institutional interdependence and infrastructure resilience
Enhancing the resilience of infrastructure to climate change requires attending to the interdependencies that occur among complex configurations of social, ecological, and technological systems (SETS). This entails extending analyses of infrastructure resilience beyond engineering assessments of the physical interdependencies among infrastructure systems to also include assessments of the social and environmental linkages that connect infrastruct…
Examining the role of Web site information in facilitating different citizen–government relationships: A case study of state Chronic Wasting Disease Web sites
Making Democracy Count
18. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, quoted in Danner, op. cit. note 11, 48. 19. The ascription of incompetence to 'naive' and minority voters (presumed to be aligned with the Democrats) was confounded when a number of news organizations began to report results of their reviews of disputed ballots in Florida. In early April 2001, the national newspaper USA Today summarized the reviews of 61,195 'undervotes' by a national accounting firm BDO Seidman, …
An Effective Instrument Of Peace: Scientific Cooperation As An Instrument Of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1938-1950
The profound transformation of postwar world affairs wrought by science encompassed both competition—driven by the atomic bomb and the growing centrality of science and technology to military as well as economic security during the cold war—and cooperation, driven by the desire to use science, in the words of the 1951 Berkner report, as “an effective instrument of peace.” Of the two, the former has garnered greater attention among scholars and am…
A Balancing Act: Women and the Work They Do
Class and Party in the Secession Crisis: Voting Behavior in the Deep South, 1856-1861
Peyton McCrary, Clark Miller, Dale Baum, Class and Party in the Secession Crisis: Voting Behavior in the Deep South, 1856-1861, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Winter, 1978), pp. 429-457
Job Complexity as Perceived by Workers and Experts
Following a symbolic interactionist framework, a study of Chicago-area women aged 25 to 54 focused on their constructed reality including definitions of the complexity of their job. Women in even low status and task complexity occupations, as measured by Duncan and DOT scales, found some dimensions of their jobs 'above average'-such as independence, responsibility, opportunities to see the product of the work, and opportunities for self-developme…
A Balancing Act: Women and the Work They Do
Making Democracy Count
18. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, quoted in Danner, op. cit. note 11, 48. 19. The ascription of incompetence to 'naive' and minority voters (presumed to be aligned with the Democrats) was confounded when a number of news organizations began to report results of their reviews of disputed ballots in Florida. In early April 2001, the national newspaper USA Today summarized the reviews of 61,195 'undervotes' by a national accounting firm BDO Seidman, …
Hybrid Management: Boundary Organizations, Science Policy, and Environmental Governance in the Climate Regime
The theory of boundary organizations was developed to address an important group of institutions in American society neglected by scholarship in science studies and political science. The long-term stability of scientific and political institutions in the United States has enabled a new class of institutions to grow and thrive as mediators between the two. As originally developed, this structural feature of these new institutions-that is, their l…
Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance
Interrogating the Civic Epistemology of American Democracy: Stability and Instability in the 2000 US Presidential Election
Transitions of power are fragile, anxious moments for political systems. This paper explores how electoral machinery - the material and social technologies of casting, counting, and contesting votes - dynamically stabilizes democratic transitions. The paper analyzes the controversy surrounding the 2000 US Presidential election. For 36 days political stability in the USA hung on uncertainty over a seemingly simple matter of fact: which candidate w…
Challenges to Regulatory Harmonization and Standard-Setting: The Case of Environmental Accounting in the US and Canada
Disputes over global standards for economic and financial accounting have become commonplace in international governance since the 1990s. Many of these disputes are rooted in the distributional consequences of proposed standards. Many others reflect significant ideological differences. In this article, we suggest that comparative analysis of regulatory and political culture – the normative and institutional organization of national governance – c…
New Civic Epistemologies of Quantification: Making Sense of Indicators of Local and Global Sustainability
Processes of globalization and decentralization are changing the relationship among statistical knowledge production, nation, and state. This article explores these changes through a comparison of five projects to design and implement indicators of sustainable development to replace conventional measures of economic welfare and social demographics-community sustainability indicators, Metropatterns, greening the gross domestic product, the Living …
Examining the role of Web site information in facilitating different citizen–government relationships: A case study of state Chronic Wasting Disease Web sites
An Effective Instrument Of Peace: Scientific Cooperation As An Instrument Of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1938-1950
The profound transformation of postwar world affairs wrought by science encompassed both competition—driven by the atomic bomb and the growing centrality of science and technology to military as well as economic security during the cold war—and cooperation, driven by the desire to use science, in the words of the 1951 Berkner report, as “an effective instrument of peace.” Of the two, the former has garnered greater attention among scholars and am…
Democratization, International Knowledge Institutions, and Global Governance
The central problem of democracy has long been theorized as how to place appropriate constraints on the responsible exercise of power. Today, this problem is most acute in global governance. This article examines the rapid rise in the creation of international knowledge institutions, arguing that these institutions reflect a growing effort by nations and publics to assert democratic constraints on the on the global exercise of power through their…
Civic Epistemologies: Constituting Knowledge and Order in Political Communities
How do we know things? The question of epistemology – which drives both the sociology and philosophy of science – is also a crucial question for political sociology. Knowledge is essential to even the most basic and foundational of political processes and institutions. In 2000, for example, the transition of power in the US presidential election hung for 36 days on uncertainty over a seemingly simple question of fact: who won the most votes in Fl…
Splitting Fees or Splitting Hairs
The Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) prohibits physician fee-splitting; an Illinois bill attempts to carve out an exception to the OIG ban. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
The Social Dimensions of Energy Transitions
The future of energy systems is one of the central policy challenges facing industrial countries. This challenge is complex and multifaceted. Energy systems are among the largest human enterprises
Towards a Reflexive Turn in the Governance of Global Environmental Expertise. The Cases of the IPCC and the Ipbes
The role and design of global expert organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) needs rethinking. Acknowledging that a one-size-fits-all model does not exist, we suggest a reflexive turn that implies treating the governance of expertise as a matter of political contestation
Socio-energy systems design: A policy framework for energy transitions
Modeling risk in complex bioeconomies
Like all bioeconomies, markets in synthetic biology will reconfigure complex arrangements of coupled social, technological, and biogeophysical systems. These rearrangements will create novel pathways for risks to propagate across and through systems that will be difficult if not impossible to predict or analyze using conventional risk assessment paradigms. To anticipate potential risks, new approaches will be needed to model cross-system dynamics…
The social value of mid-scale energy in Africa: Redefining value and redesigning energy to reduce poverty
Narrative futures and the governance of energy transitions
Co-production in global sustainability: Histories and theories
Co-production is one of the most important ideas in the theory and practice of knowledge and governance for global sustainability, including ecology and biodiversity conservation. A core challenge confronting the application of co-production has been confusion over differences in definition and practice across several disciplinary traditions, including sustainability science, public administration, and science and technology studies. In this pape…
Co-Producing Sustainability: Reordering the Governance of Science, Policy, and Practice
Co-production has become a cornerstone of research within the sustainability sciences, motivating collaborations of diverse actors to conduct research in the service of societal and policy change. This review examines theoretical and empirical literature from sustainability science, public administration, and science and technology studies (STS) with the intention of advancing the theory and practice of co-production within sustainability science…
Redesigning knowledge systems for urban resilience
The resilience work of institutions
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS are useful at better understanding energy-related social science, to reflect on prominent themes and topics within those approaches, and to identify current re…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Engineering (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Business (9 works)