Frank N Laird
Biographic Data
| ID | 763705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank N Laird |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank N |
| FAMILY NAME | Laird |
| SIGNATURE | LAIRD F N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9595-6707 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sticky Policies, Dysfunctional Systems: Path Dependency and the Problems of Government Funding for Science in the United States
Leaders of the scientific community have declared that American science is in a crisis due to inadequate federal funding. They misconstrue the problem; its roots lie instead in the institutional interactions between federal funding agencies and higher education. After World War II, science policy elites advocated for a system of funding that addressed what they perceived at the time as their most pressing problems of science-government relations:…
Driving energy: The Enactment and Ambitiousness of State Renewable Energy Policy
U.S. states have led the federal government in instituting policies aimed at promoting renewable energy. Nearly all research on renewable portfolio standards (RPSs) has treated RPS adoption as a binary choice. Given the substantial variation in the renewable energy goals established by RPSs, we propose a new measure of RPS ambition that accounts for the amount of additional renewable energy production needed to reach the RPS goal and the number o…
Against Transitions? Uncovering Conflicts in Changing Energy Systems
Keywords: Energy transitionenergy policysocial and political conflicttechnological systems
Learning Contested Lessons: Participation Equity and Electric Utility Regulation
Electric utilities have typically enjoyed a close and cooperative relationship with the state regulatory bodies that oversee them. In 2001, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission mandated that the largest Colorado utility build a wind power plant as part of its conventional generating capacity, despite the utility's vigorous objections. Local environmental groups, intervening in a form of rule making called Integrated Resource Planning, succeed…
Power politics: Equity and environment in electricity reform
Constructing the Future: Advocating Energy Technologies in the Cold War
The future matters, and never more than when advocates argue for their favored technologies. Conflicts over public policy for energy reflect broader conflicts over technology and the shape of future society because people advocate for systems that they believe will maintain or create the societies they desire. Between World War II and 1980, advocates for solar energy, now called renewable energy, sought to develop new energy technology systems to…
Participatory Analysis, Democracy, and Technological Decision Making
Scientific and technological policy issues are not and should not be exempt from the norms of democratic governance. This article examines two major theories of democracy, analyzes their commonalities and differences, and derives criteria for evaluating various forms of public participation in policymaking. The author argues for a new category of participation, participatory analysis, that includes forms of participation that satisfy democratic c…
Participatory Analysis, Democracy, and Technological Decision Making
Scientific and technological policy issues are not and should not be exempt from the norms of democratic governance. This article examines two major theories of democracy, analyzes their commonalities and differences, and derives criteria for evaluating various forms of public participation in policymaking. The author argues for a new category of participation, participatory analysis, that includes forms of participation that satisfy democratic c…
Driving energy: The Enactment and Ambitiousness of State Renewable Energy Policy
U.S. states have led the federal government in instituting policies aimed at promoting renewable energy. Nearly all research on renewable portfolio standards (RPSs) has treated RPS adoption as a binary choice. Given the substantial variation in the renewable energy goals established by RPSs, we propose a new measure of RPS ambition that accounts for the amount of additional renewable energy production needed to reach the RPS goal and the number o…
Against Transitions? Uncovering Conflicts in Changing Energy Systems
Keywords: Energy transitionenergy policysocial and political conflicttechnological systems
Constructing the Future: Advocating Energy Technologies in the Cold War
The future matters, and never more than when advocates argue for their favored technologies. Conflicts over public policy for energy reflect broader conflicts over technology and the shape of future society because people advocate for systems that they believe will maintain or create the societies they desire. Between World War II and 1980, advocates for solar energy, now called renewable energy, sought to develop new energy technology systems to…
Power politics: Equity and environment in electricity reform
Learning Contested Lessons: Participation Equity and Electric Utility Regulation
Electric utilities have typically enjoyed a close and cooperative relationship with the state regulatory bodies that oversee them. In 2001, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission mandated that the largest Colorado utility build a wind power plant as part of its conventional generating capacity, despite the utility's vigorous objections. Local environmental groups, intervening in a form of rule making called Integrated Resource Planning, succeed…
Participatory Analysis, Democracy, and Technological Decision Making
Scientific and technological policy issues are not and should not be exempt from the norms of democratic governance. This article examines two major theories of democracy, analyzes their commonalities and differences, and derives criteria for evaluating various forms of public participation in policymaking. The author argues for a new category of participation, participatory analysis, that includes forms of participation that satisfy democratic c…
Power politics: Equity and environment in electricity reform
Constructing the Future: Advocating Energy Technologies in the Cold War
The future matters, and never more than when advocates argue for their favored technologies. Conflicts over public policy for energy reflect broader conflicts over technology and the shape of future society because people advocate for systems that they believe will maintain or create the societies they desire. Between World War II and 1980, advocates for solar energy, now called renewable energy, sought to develop new energy technology systems to…
Learning Contested Lessons: Participation Equity and Electric Utility Regulation
Electric utilities have typically enjoyed a close and cooperative relationship with the state regulatory bodies that oversee them. In 2001, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission mandated that the largest Colorado utility build a wind power plant as part of its conventional generating capacity, despite the utility's vigorous objections. Local environmental groups, intervening in a form of rule making called Integrated Resource Planning, succeed…
Against Transitions? Uncovering Conflicts in Changing Energy Systems
Keywords: Energy transitionenergy policysocial and political conflicttechnological systems
Driving energy: The Enactment and Ambitiousness of State Renewable Energy Policy
U.S. states have led the federal government in instituting policies aimed at promoting renewable energy. Nearly all research on renewable portfolio standards (RPSs) has treated RPS adoption as a binary choice. Given the substantial variation in the renewable energy goals established by RPSs, we propose a new measure of RPS ambition that accounts for the amount of additional renewable energy production needed to reach the RPS goal and the number o…
Sticky Policies, Dysfunctional Systems: Path Dependency and the Problems of Government Funding for Science in the United States
Leaders of the scientific community have declared that American science is in a crisis due to inadequate federal funding. They misconstrue the problem; its roots lie instead in the institutional interactions between federal funding agencies and higher education. After World War II, science policy elites advocated for a system of funding that addressed what they perceived at the time as their most pressing problems of science-government relations:…
Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)