Risk Assessment and Decision-Making for Genetically Modified Foods

The author examines concerns about genetically modified foods and how those concerns have developed into policy responses markedly different in Europe than in the United States

Policy change and industry associability: the Australian mining sector

In this paper we use evidence from the recent trajectories of mining industry associations in the Australian federation to argue for the significance of institutional explanations for the formation and maintenance of interest groups. We argue that the recent lack of consultation by the Commonwealth government with the Minerals Council of Australia over resources rent taxation proposals reflected a weakness that resulted from the shifting basis of associability stemming from institutional changes