Memory games

My new hobby (in the shower, while walking, while waiting for anything) – mentally listing public policy scholars and their best-known contributions:

• Haas – epistemic communities
• Kingdon – policy windows
• Skogstad – economic globalization v. political internationalization
• Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith – the advocacy coalition framework
• Downs, Olson, Arrow – rational choice
• Green and Shapiro – critics of rational choice
• Howlett, Ramesh, Perl – summarizers of everything
• Harden and Ostrum – analysts of tragedies of the commons
• Jones – bounded rationality
• Lindblom – muddling through
• Tversky and Kahneman – framing
• Tsebelis – nested games, veto points
• Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos – philosophy of science
• Pierson – policy feedbacks
• Hall – policy paradigms

Etc, etc

Author: Milan

In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. In the fall of 2005, I began reading for an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford. Outside school, I am very interested in photography, writing, and the outdoors. I am writing this blog to keep in touch with friends and family around the world, provide a more personal view of graduate student life in Oxford, and pass on some lessons I've learned here. View all posts by Milan