Joseph L. Fisher Dissertation Winners
2005-2006
Ryan Cole Bosworth, University of Oregon, Department of Economics. Bosworth is analyzing a variety of survey data to examine health issues in his dissertation, "Demand for Preventative Public Health Policies."
Ralph Espach, University of California / Berkeley, Department of Political Science. Espach is studying three international, private environmental regulatory regimes (the chemical industry's Responsible Care program, the Forest Stewardship Council, and the ISO 14000 series of environmental management standards) in his dissertation, "Public Responses to Private Authority: State Actors and Private Environmental Regulatory Regimes in Argentina and Brazil."
Ulrich Wagner, Yale University, Department of Economics. Wagner's dissertation is "Assessing Global Collective Action for the Protection of the Stratospheric Ozone Layer," in which he examines a variety of hypotheses about determinants of countries' decisions to ratify the Montreal Protocol.
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