Proponents of biotechnology argue that citizens' opposition to innovations such as genetically modified (GM) foods is rooted in emotionalism, media and nongovernmental organizations' distortions of good science, and scientific ignorance. Critics charge that this "risk management discursive" is...

This article seeks to advance our understanding of the politics of growth management reform in the American states. First, it builds on prior research on agenda processes in other policy arenas to identify four "ideal" types of growth management reforms with empirical referents in the states:...

George W. Bush assumed the presidency with the ill-fated political aim of creating a permanent electoral alignment favoring Reagan Republicanism in America by pursuing a “big government conservatism” agenda. We define the logic of big government conservativism as a strategy for electoral...

Amid the financial crisis dogging nations worldwide, shifting demographic trends disparately affecting economics worldwide, failed or failing states inviting the projection of Western military power abroad, and the aggressive positive state interventionist philosophy of the Obama administration,...