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Philosophers, social scientists, and institutions — grouped as people and organizations rather than individual bibliographic works.
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U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. House whose Katrina investigation report catalogued federal initiative failure.
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U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. House whose Katrina investigation report catalogued federal initiative failure.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
U.S. federal regulator publishing whistleblower program reports and securities enforcement materials.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
U.S. federal regulator publishing whistleblower program reports and securities enforcement materials.
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U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications
Senate subcommittee whose Public Broadcasting Act hearings shaped the civic case for noncommercial media.
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U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications
Senate subcommittee whose Public Broadcasting Act hearings shaped the civic case for noncommercial media.
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U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
Joint Treasury–Fed–FDIC statements coordinating crisis language about banks and deposits.
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U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
Joint Treasury–Fed–FDIC statements coordinating crisis language about banks and deposits.
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U.S. White House
Executive lessons-learned report on the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.
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U.S. White House
Executive lessons-learned report on the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.
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Ulrich Beck
Sociologist of the risk society—how modern institutions distribute manufactured uncertainty and individualized responsibility.
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Ulrich Beck
Sociologist of the risk society—how modern institutions distribute manufactured uncertainty and individualized responsibility.
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
International treaty framework coordinating national climate commitments and global governance of emissions.
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
International treaty framework coordinating national climate commitments and global governance of emissions.
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United States Anti-Doping Agency
U.S. anti-doping authority whose Armstrong ban and reasoned decision strip winning of its moral cover.
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United States Anti-Doping Agency
U.S. anti-doping authority whose Armstrong ban and reasoned decision strip winning of its moral cover.
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United States Congress
U.S. legislature behind statutes such as ESSA and WARN that encode accountability and disclosure rules.
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United States Congress
U.S. legislature behind statutes such as ESSA and WARN that encode accountability and disclosure rules.
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United States Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court whose Clay v. United States decision restored Ali's boxing license after draft refusal.
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United States Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court whose Clay v. United States decision restored Ali's boxing license after draft refusal.
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V. O. Key Jr.
Political scientist of retrospective voting and the responsible electorate thesis.
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V. O. Key Jr.
Political scientist of retrospective voting and the responsible electorate thesis.
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Václav Havel
Writer and statesman of living in truth, dissident responsibility, and moral seriousness under ideological pressure.
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Václav Havel
Writer and statesman of living in truth, dissident responsibility, and moral seriousness under ideological pressure.
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Vaughn Vernon
Software architect and author on domain-driven design, messaging, and modeling complex business domains.
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Vaughn Vernon
Software architect and author on domain-driven design, messaging, and modeling complex business domains.
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Victor Klemperer
Literary scholar and diarist who analyzed how totalitarian regimes reshape everyday language and thought.
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Victor Klemperer
Literary scholar and diarist who analyzed how totalitarian regimes reshape everyday language and thought.
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Victor S. Navasky
Journalist-historian of naming names in the Hollywood blacklist era.
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Victor S. Navasky
Journalist-historian of naming names in the Hollywood blacklist era.
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Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative
Initiative publishing claims codes for voluntary carbon-market integrity and green claims.
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Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative
Initiative publishing claims codes for voluntary carbon-market integrity and green claims.
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W. Brian Arthur
Economist of complexity, increasing returns, and path dependence in technology and economic systems.
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W. Brian Arthur
Economist of complexity, increasing returns, and path dependence in technology and economic systems.
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W. Dean
Physician and writer on moral injury in medicine and the systemic causes of clinician depletion.
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W. Dean
Physician and writer on moral injury in medicine and the systemic causes of clinician depletion.
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W. Edwards Deming
Statistician and management thinker of quality, systems improvement, and how organizations learn from variation rather than blame.
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W. Edwards Deming
Statistician and management thinker of quality, systems improvement, and how organizations learn from variation rather than blame.
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Walter Isaacson
Biographer and historian of innovation ecosystems—how networks, institutions, and personalities shape discovery.
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Walter Isaacson
Biographer and historian of innovation ecosystems—how networks, institutions, and personalities shape discovery.
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Walter Weiss
Psychologist collaborating on classic studies of source credibility and communication effectiveness.
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Walter Weiss
Psychologist collaborating on classic studies of source credibility and communication effectiveness.
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Wangari Maathai
Kenyan environmental leader and Nobel laureate whose Green Belt Movement linked trees, democracy, and dignity.
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Wangari Maathai
Kenyan environmental leader and Nobel laureate whose Green Belt Movement linked trees, democracy, and dignity.
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Ward Cunningham
Programmer who invented the wiki, named technical debt, and helped early patterns and Extreme Programming communities connect practice to shared knowledge.
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Ward Cunningham
Programmer who invented the wiki, named technical debt, and helped early patterns and Extreme Programming communities connect practice to shared knowledge.
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Wayne A. Meeks
New Testament scholar of early urban Christians and the social world of Pauline communities.
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Wayne A. Meeks
New Testament scholar of early urban Christians and the social world of Pauline communities.