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Philosophers, social scientists, and institutions — grouped as people and organizations rather than individual bibliographic works.
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Christopher Alexander
Architect and theorist of pattern languages, living structure, and humane scale in built environment.
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Christopher Alexander
Architect and theorist of pattern languages, living structure, and humane scale in built environment.
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Christopher Boehm
Anthropologist of egalitarian politics, moral communities, and evolution of social control.
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Christopher Boehm
Anthropologist of egalitarian politics, moral communities, and evolution of social control.
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Christopher F. Chabris
Cognitive scientists of inattentional blindness and the limits of confident perception under load.
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Christopher F. Chabris
Cognitive scientists of inattentional blindness and the limits of confident perception under load.
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Christopher Hood
Public administration scholars of blame avoidance, reputation management, and government accountability theater.
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Christopher Hood
Public administration scholars of blame avoidance, reputation management, and government accountability theater.
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Christopher Pollitt
Public management scholars of government reform, performance regimes, and administrative modernization.
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Christopher Pollitt
Public management scholars of government reform, performance regimes, and administrative modernization.
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Claude M Steele
Psychologist of stereotype threat and how identity contingencies distort performance under scrutiny.
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Claude M Steele
Psychologist of stereotype threat and how identity contingencies distort performance under scrutiny.
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Clifford Geertz
Anthropologist of thick description, culture as webs of meaning, and interpretive social science.
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Clifford Geertz
Anthropologist of thick description, culture as webs of meaning, and interpretive social science.
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CNN
News network covering institutional sports decisions and political collision with athletic spectacle.
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CNN
News network covering institutional sports decisions and political collision with athletic spectacle.
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CNN Politics
CNN's politics desk covering presidential pressure on athletic protest and league response.
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CNN Politics
CNN's politics desk covering presidential pressure on athletic protest and league response.
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Columbia Accident Investigation Board
NASA investigative board that examined the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and organizational causes of failure.
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Columbia Accident Investigation Board
NASA investigative board that examined the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and organizational causes of failure.
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Congressional Budget Office
Nonpartisan scorekeeper estimating how automatic stabilizers and fiscal rules shape the federal budget.
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Congressional Budget Office
Nonpartisan scorekeeper estimating how automatic stabilizers and fiscal rules shape the federal budget.
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Congressional Record
Official transcript of U.S. congressional debate, including Affordable Care Act floor fights.
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Congressional Record
Official transcript of U.S. congressional debate, including Affordable Care Act floor fights.
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Craig Calhoun
Sociologist of the 1989 Beijing democracy movement and student politics under state power.
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Craig Calhoun
Sociologist of the 1989 Beijing democracy movement and student politics under state power.
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Cynda Hylton Rushton
Nurse ethicist working on moral distress, resilience, and integrity under institutional constraint.
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Cynda Hylton Rushton
Nurse ethicist working on moral distress, resilience, and integrity under institutional constraint.
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D. T. Potts
Archaeologist of Mesopotamia's material foundations—cities, craft, and institutional infrastructure.
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D. T. Potts
Archaeologist of Mesopotamia's material foundations—cities, craft, and institutional infrastructure.
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Dan Boneh
Cryptography and computer security professor studying practical security failures in modern software workflows.
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Dan Boneh
Cryptography and computer security professor studying practical security failures in modern software workflows.
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Dan M Kahan
Legal scholar studying cultural cognition—how group identity shapes risk perception and belief formation.
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Dan M Kahan
Legal scholar studying cultural cognition—how group identity shapes risk perception and belief formation.
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Daniel A. Effron
Psychologist studying moral credentialing and the conditions under which goodness licenses misconduct.
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Daniel A. Effron
Psychologist studying moral credentialing and the conditions under which goodness licenses misconduct.
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Daniel J. Simons
Cognitive scientists of inattentional blindness and the limits of confident perception under load.
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Daniel J. Simons
Cognitive scientists of inattentional blindness and the limits of confident perception under load.
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Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist of judgment and decision-making—biases, heuristics, and noise in expert choice.
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Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist of judgment and decision-making—biases, heuristics, and noise in expert choice.
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Daron Acemoglu
Economists of institutions, extractive versus inclusive political economy, and why nations fail or flourish.
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Daron Acemoglu
Economists of institutions, extractive versus inclusive political economy, and why nations fail or flourish.
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Dave Studeman
Baseball writer who chronicled the spread of Moneyball-style analysis into mainstream evaluation.
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Dave Studeman
Baseball writer who chronicled the spread of Moneyball-style analysis into mainstream evaluation.
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Dave Thomas
Programmer, educator, and Pragmatic Programmer co-author known for advocacy of craftsmanship, automation, and developer autonomy.
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Dave Thomas
Programmer, educator, and Pragmatic Programmer co-author known for advocacy of craftsmanship, automation, and developer autonomy.
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David Edgerton
Historian of technology-in-use, shock of the old, and how innovation narratives misread sedimented tools.
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David Edgerton
Historian of technology-in-use, shock of the old, and how innovation narratives misread sedimented tools.