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Title: Facing Uncertainty: Norms and Formal Institutions as Shared Mental Models
Description: This paper presents a theoretical argument focused on how social norms and formal institutions operate as cognitive coping mechanisms among groupings of boundedly rational actors who face fundamental uncertainty concerning their political and economic environments.
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:27808

Title: P.A.L.S. Volunteer Retention Project, Final Report, PALS Volunteer Retention Project, Final Report
Description: Poweshiek Animal League Shelter (P.A.L.S.) started in 2004 with a group of volunteers and has continued to depend on volunteers through its development.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:3190

Title: Review of Complexity and the Art of Public Policy
Description: Review of the book Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up, by David Colander and Roland Kupers (Princeton University Press, 2014).
Date Created: 2020
PID: grinnell:27807

Title: The Political Economy of Collective Action and Radical Reform: A Proposed Conceptual Framework
Description: This paper presents a broad framework for analyzing radical reform in terms of a large set of collective-action problems faced by potential reformers. It merges concepts that often appear separately in the literature, including social preferences, power relationships, policy subsystems, institutional stability, types of institutional change, and types of agents.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:27809