Essays on the politics of scientific and technological change
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation brings together three papers that explore the relationship between politics and scientific and technological change, paying close attention to how political actors respond to changes in science and technology. The first two papers see technology as exogenous to politics, and study the political consequences of different methods of adjustment to new production technology. The first paper tests and finds evidence against a common conventional wisdom -- that reemploying the losers from technological change will reduce their political grievances and mobilization. The second paper shows that institutions designed to deal with one type of job loss -- that due to trade competition -- might direct collective action by the losers from another type of job loss: automation. The last paper takes a step back and asks whether scientific knowledge -- in this case, knowledge about environmental harm -- is truly exogenous to the interests of powerful actors. I show that powerful states have an incentive to alter scientific information from international institutions in an effort to secure a more favorable climate agreement.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Hai, Mohammad Zuhad |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Goldstein, Judith |
| Thesis advisor | Goldstein, Judith |
| Thesis advisor | Acharya, Avidit |
| Thesis advisor | Tomz, Michael |
| Degree committee member | Acharya, Avidit |
| Degree committee member | Tomz, Michael |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Zuhad Hai. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/xj689bk5304 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Mohammad Zuhad Hai
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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