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Better Ways to Study Regulatory Elephants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jonathan B. Wiener ,
Brendon Swedlow ,
James K. Hammitt ,
Michael D. Rogers  and
Peter H. Sand
Jonathan B. Wiener
Affiliation:
Duke Law School, Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, and Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy, at Duke University and a University Fellow of Resources for the Future (RFF)
Brendon Swedlow
Affiliation:
political science and founding faculty associate of the Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, and Energy at Northern Illinois University, a research associate of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics, and a fellow of the Center for Governance at the University of California, Los Angeles
James K. Hammitt
Affiliation:
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, and at the Toulouse School of Economics (LERNA–INRA)
Michael D. Rogers
Affiliation:
Bureau of European Policy Advisers, at the European Commission
Peter H. Sand
Affiliation:
International Environmental Law at the University of Munich
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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 2013 , pp. 311 - 319
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