Highlights of 2011 - Institute for Policy Research - Northwestern ...

Dorothy Roberts
Roberts, Dorothy. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big
Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century. The New
Press (2011).
Morton Schapiro
McPherson, Michael, and Morton Schapiro, eds. College Success:
What It Means and How to Make It Happen. College Board
(2008).
Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Watkins-Hayes, Celeste. The New Welfare Bureaucrats:
Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform. University of
Chicago Press (2009).
Burton Weisbrod
Weisbrod, Burton, Jeffrey Ballou, and Evelyn Asch. Mission and
Money: Understanding the University. Cambridge University Press
(2008, paperback 2010).
Faculty Associates
Pablo Boczkowski
Boczkowski, Pablo. News at Work: Imitation in an Age of
Information Abundance. University of Chicago Press (2010).
Carolyn Chen
Chen, Carolyn. Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration
and Religious Experience. Princeton University Press (2008).
Joan Chiao
Chiao, Joan, ed. Cultural Neuroscience: Cultural Influences on Brain
Function. Progress in Brain Research Series, vol. 178. Elsevier
(2009).
David Dana
Dana, David, ed. The Nanotechnology Challenge: Creating Law and
Legal Institutions for Uncertain Risks. Cambridge University Press
(2011).
Daniel Diermeier
Bendor, Jonathan, Daniel Diermeier, David Siegel, and Michael
Ting. A Behavioral Theory of Elections. Princeton University Press
(2011).
Diermeier, Daniel. Reputation Rules: Strategies for Building Your
Company’s Most Valuable Asset. McGraw-Hill (2011).
David Dranove
Dranove, David. Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive
the Healthcare System Without Destroying It. Princeton University
Press (2008).
Steven Epstein
Wailoo, Keith, Julie Livingston, Steven Epstein, and Robert
Aronowitz, eds. Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine
and the Politics of Medicine’s Simple Solutions. Johns Hopkins
University Press (2010).
Eli Finkel
Baumeister, Roy, and Eli Finkel, eds. Advanced Social Psychology:
The State of the Science. Oxford University Press (2010).
John Hagan
Hagan, John. Who Are the Criminals? The Politics of Crime Policy
from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan. Princeton
University Press (2010).
Hagan, John, and Wenona Rymond-Richmond. Darfur and the
Crime of Genocide. Cambridge University Press (2008).
The Nanotechnology Challenge:
Creating Legal Institutions for Uncertain
Risks
ed. by David Dana
Cambridge University Press
As development of nanotechnology
zooms ahead, research on its effects
on health and the environment lags.
The Nanotechnology Challenge, edited
by law professor and IPR associate
David Dana with contributions from
IPR faculty James Druckman and Daniel
Diermeier, attempts to address this
gap. The book offers views by legal
scholars and scientists on how to assess
the potential unknowns and risks
of nanotechnology. It also examines the public perception
of these risks and its influence on regulatory trends.
A Behavioral Theory of Elections
by Jonathan Bendor, Daniel Diermeier, David Siegel,
and Michael Ting
Princeton University Press
Daniel Diermeier, a Kellogg professor
and IPR associate, and his co-authors
have mined the field of behavioral
economics to provide a new theory
of elections, rooted in the idea that
neither politicians nor voters are fully
rational. The authors construct formal
models of party competition, turnout,
and voter candidate preferences.
These models predict substantial
turnout levels and voters sorting into
parties, among others—generating results more consistent
with actual election data.
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