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Carl Schmitt
Political theorist of sovereignty, the friend-enemy distinction, and states of exception.
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Carl Schmitt
Political theorist of sovereignty, the friend-enemy distinction, and states of exception.
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Carlo Rovelli
Physicist and essayist on relational quantum theory, time, and the limits of naive objectivity.
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Carlo Rovelli
Physicist and essayist on relational quantum theory, time, and the limits of naive objectivity.
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Carlos Escudé
Historian of economic thought and Latin American political economy.
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Carlos Escudé
Historian of economic thought and Latin American political economy.
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Carmen M. Reinhart
Economists who documented serial financial crises and the recurring belief that this time is different.
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Carmen M. Reinhart
Economists who documented serial financial crises and the recurring belief that this time is different.
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Carol Tavris
Social psychologists who study cognitive dissonance, self-justification, and why smart people defend bad decisions.
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Carol Tavris
Social psychologists who study cognitive dissonance, self-justification, and why smart people defend bad decisions.
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Casper Lassenius
Software engineering researchers on large-scale agile adoption and coordination across sites.
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Casper Lassenius
Software engineering researchers on large-scale agile adoption and coordination across sites.
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Cass R Sunstein
Legal scholar of behavioral economics, group polarization, and how information environments shape belief.
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Cass R Sunstein
Legal scholar of behavioral economics, group polarization, and how information environments shape belief.
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Catherine C. Lewis
Education researcher on Japanese lesson study and how research can contribute to instructional improvement in schools.
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Catherine C. Lewis
Education researcher on Japanese lesson study and how research can contribute to instructional improvement in schools.
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Cathy O'Neil
Data scientist and critic of Weapons of Math Destruction—opaque models that encode harm at scale.
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Cathy O'Neil
Data scientist and critic of Weapons of Math Destruction—opaque models that encode harm at scale.
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Center for Responsive Politics
Nonpartisan tracker (OpenSecrets) of U.S. campaign finance, lobbying, and donor influence.
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Center for Responsive Politics
Nonpartisan tracker (OpenSecrets) of U.S. campaign finance, lobbying, and donor influence.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. public-health agency whose concussion and return-to-play guidance frames embodied risk outside team incentives.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. public-health agency whose concussion and return-to-play guidance frames embodied risk outside team incentives.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
U.S. federal agency publishing hospital quality, readmissions, and healthcare policy data.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
U.S. federal agency publishing hospital quality, readmissions, and healthcare policy data.
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Chantal Mouffe
Political theorist of agonistic democracy and constitutive conflict in plural societies.
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Chantal Mouffe
Political theorist of agonistic democracy and constitutive conflict in plural societies.
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Charles A. E Goodhart
Economist known for Goodhart's Law—when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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Charles A. E Goodhart
Economist known for Goodhart's Law—when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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Charles G. Lord
Psychologists of belief perseverance and biased assimilation of disconfirming evidence.
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Charles G. Lord
Psychologists of belief perseverance and biased assimilation of disconfirming evidence.
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Charles M. Payne
Historian of the Mississippi freedom movement and the organizing tradition beneath charismatic leadership.
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Charles M. Payne
Historian of the Mississippi freedom movement and the organizing tradition beneath charismatic leadership.
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Charles Perrow
Sociologist of normal accidents—tight coupling and complex systems where failures cascade.
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Charles Perrow
Sociologist of normal accidents—tight coupling and complex systems where failures cascade.
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Charles Taylor
Philosopher of recognition, secular age, and how modern selves seek sources of moral orientation.
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Charles Taylor
Philosopher of recognition, secular age, and how modern selves seek sources of moral orientation.
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Charles Tilly
Historical sociologist of state formation, coercion, capital, and contentious politics.
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Charles Tilly
Historical sociologist of state formation, coercion, capital, and contentious politics.
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Charter 77
Czechoslovak dissident initiative whose founding declaration made living in truth a public civic practice.
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Charter 77
Czechoslovak dissident initiative whose founding declaration made living in truth a public civic practice.
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Chloe Melas
Entertainment journalist reporting celebrity labor practices, bonuses, and the economics of mega-tours.
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Chloe Melas
Entertainment journalist reporting celebrity labor practices, bonuses, and the economics of mega-tours.
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Chris Argyris
Organizational theorists of double-loop learning and reflective practice in professional work.
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Chris Argyris
Organizational theorists of double-loop learning and reflective practice in professional work.
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Chris Jones
Google SRE editor contributing practice patterns for running reliable large-scale production systems.
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Chris Jones
Google SRE editor contributing practice patterns for running reliable large-scale production systems.
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Christian Albrekt Larsen
Political scientist of trust in welfare states and Nordic institutional legitimacy.
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Christian Albrekt Larsen
Political scientist of trust in welfare states and Nordic institutional legitimacy.