Walter W Williams

Biographic Data

ID5807136
NAMEWalter W Williams
GIVEN NAMESWalter W
FAMILY NAMEWilliams
SIGNATUREWILLIAMS W W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Washington
ORCID0000-0001-9497-652X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1961
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
H-INDEX1

  • Fear and Stigma

    Open AccessBobbie Person, Francisco S Sy et al.ARTICLEEmerging infectious diseases2004

    Because of their evolving nature and inherent scientific uncertainties, outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases can be associated with considerable fear in the general public or in specific communities, especially when illness and deaths are substantial. Mitigating fear and discrimination directed toward persons infected with, and affected by, infectious disease can be important in controlling transmission. Persons who are feared and stigmatize…

  • Policy information and democratic governance

    Walter Williams, Walter W WilliamsARTICLEJournal of Comparative Policy…1999

    This article considers the development of social policy analysis in the American central government in order both to present the highlights of that three‐plus‐decade history and to spell out the implications for the United States and other advanced industrial democracies. The argument is that (1) sound policy data and analyses have never been so heeded in the face of increasing political polarization and overwhelming amounts of difficult‐to‐valid…

  • Presidential decision making adrift

    Open AccessWalter Williams, Walter W WilliamsARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1998

  • Who's in control? and Locked in the cabinet

    Open AccessWalter Williams, Walter W WilliamsARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1998

  • Presidential decision making adrift

    Open AccessWalter Williams, Walter W WilliamsARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1998

  • Predictors of vaccination behavior among persons ages 65 years and older

    P A Stehr-Green, Paul A Stehr‐Green et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1990Cited by: 3References: 7

    We estimated influenza vaccination coverage of 32 percent among persons 65 years of age and older from the 1987 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey. Race other than White, obesity, lack of seatbelt use, and current smoking were associated with decreased likelihood of having been vaccinated. Controlling for these factors, the best predictor of having received influenza vaccination was having had a medical checkup within the last year…

  • Managing a Federal Agency

    Open AccessWalter Williams, Walter W WilliamsARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1981

    Journal Article Managing a Federal Agency: The Hidden Stimulus, by Louis K. Bragaw Get access Managing a Federal Agency: The Hidden Stimulus by Louis K. Bragaw. Baltimore, Md., Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. 300 pp. $20.00. Walter Williams Walter Williams University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 4, Winter 1981, Pages 694–695, https://doi.…

  • The Purposes of Social Experimentation

    Henry W Riecken, Robert F Boruch et al.ARTICLEEducational Researcher1974Cited by: 1

    (Reprinted with permission from Social Experimentation: A Method for Planning and Evaluating Social Intervention written by a Committee of the Social Science Research Council: Henry W. Riecken, Chairman, Robert F. Boruch, Donald T. Campbell, Nathan Caplan, Thomas K. Glennan Jr., John W. Pratt, Albert Rees, Walter Williams. Edited by Henry W. Riecken and Robert F. Boruch, published by Academic Press, New York, November 1974.)

  • The Availability of Term Life and of Health Insurance as Factors Affecting the Demand for Money

    Walter Williams, Walter W WilliamsARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1961