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Summary. Scholars across the social sciences have long hypothesized that individual contributors often make political contributions on the basis of partisanship or ideology and that the most active donors may be the most ideologically motivated. But drawing from a newly constructed “big” data set called the Longitudinal Elite Contributor Database (LECD), the author shows that past studies have failed to detect several striking patterns in the strategies of individual contributors: (1) a persistent positive association between frequency of giving and bipartisan or “split contributing” and (2) significant declines in the likelihood of bipartisan contributing since the late 1980s. The author shows that donors who give to both parties also target more moderate incumbents of each political party, relative to partisan donors. Taken together, the findings suggest that repeat individual donors are less partisan in their strategies, and vis-à-vis the incumbents to whom they send donations, these repeat contributors are also less ideologically extreme.
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Summary. Discusses developments in the issue of whether to regulate the practice of double-booking surgeons to maximize revenue.
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Summary. This article aims to the logical development of a practical and applicable analysis model of argumentative transparency, specifically for the study of public policies. To this end, we draw upon a “political concept of transparency” which redefines pragmatic logic operations in contexts of trust and cooperation between actors. The model combines a principal-agent framework, non-linear assumptions of production of information, and conversational maxims of use of language. This results in an analysis that is focused on the actors’ capacity and their relation. The model also finds a necessary link between active and passive transparency processes, where the building of trust arising from transparency is directly associated with the reduction of control costs. In addition, this article intends to be an applied model, with visual tools related to transparent decision-making processes, protocols for marking up transparency in texts and, finally, an empirical analysis of transparency in the argument of specific public policies. The combination of multiple frameworks and the deduction of a logical model presents an original work for the study of public policies.
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Summary. Investigates factors that lead physicians to be untruthful with patients.
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Summary. Explores how liability concerns influence physicians to order care that patients don’t need.
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Summary. Partnership with Dinçer grew out of the Institutional Corruption conference in 2012.
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Summary. This piece challenges the claim that public health agencies should partner with food companies because they have a “shared responsibility” to address obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases. Governments should discharge their responsibilities, this piece argues, by effectively regulating industry actors, rather than collaborating with them.
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Summary. This piece raises the concern that secret settlements with corporate actors (such as oil and gas companies engaged in fracking) may conceal serious threats to public health.
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Summary. Describes how commonly drug companies fail to adhere to obligations to disclose clinical trial results. My collaboration with Dr. Miller is a direct result of my Safra fellowship.
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Summary. Of all of my work, these three papers most specifically draw from the the conceptual frames developed in the IC Safra Lab - although their explicit reference to it varies. The risk of IC to public credibility of scientific and scholarly institutions stands at the focus of this work, especially the paradox of the pursuit of value-free science as a value-laden approach to defend this crediblity without accountability.
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Summary. Describes how common it is for patients’ primary physician to have taken payments from drug companies.
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Summary. Brazilian voters, particularly political sophisticates, show an ability to distinguish between more and less credible corruption accusations.