This paper examines the nature of learning in networks dealing with conditions of high uncertainty. I take Koppenjan and Klijn’s (2004) framework for understanding network uncertainty and apply it to an extreme example of uncertainty, an interorganizational crisis taskforce dealing with an...

A perennial task for the state is the creation and policing of categories. State-created categories have real world impacts on the public. The consequences of racial categorizations, for example, are well-documented. We examine a less studied consequence of state categorization, which are the...