Cultural theory (CT) developed from grid/group analysis, which posits that different patterns
of social relations—hierarchist, individualist, egalitarian, and fatalist—produce compatible …

American dispute resolution is more adversarial, compared with systems of other
economically advanced countries. Americans more often rely on legal threats and lawsuits …

The'Precautionary Principle'has sparked the central controversy over European and US risk
regulation. The Reality of Precaution is the most comprehensive study to go beyond …

Many political scientists first learned of anthropologist Mary Douglas's cultural theory (CT)
through Aaron Wildavsky's APSA presidential address (Wildavsky 1987), in which he sought …

Cultural Theory (CT) is a constructivist theory, developed by M ary D ouglas, A aron W
ildavsky, and others, that seeks to participate in the positivist project of discovering …

Disasters challenge the equilibrium of regulatory regimes and make policy shifts more likely.
Using an institutional theory of cultural biases and the concept of cultural “surprise”, this …

As we write, the world is still in the grips of a financial crisis. Germany was one of the first
countries to bail out a bank in July 2007. Then, in September 2007, the United Kingdom …

In States of Knowledge (2004), Sheila Jasanoff argues that we gain explanatory power by
thinking of natural and social orders as being produced together, but she and her volume …

This symposium highlighted the relevance of the cultural theory (CT) pioneered by
anthropologists Mary Douglas, Steve Rayner, and Michael Thompson and political scientists …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to identify the risks faced by users of online social
networking services (SNSs) in the UK and to develop a typology of risk that can be used to …