William Ascher | Academic Influence

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William Ascher is affiliated with the following schools: Yale University, Soka University of America, Claremont McKenna College

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According to Wikipedia, William Ascher is the Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, where he was academic vice president and dean of the faculty . Previously, as professor of public policy and political science, Ascher directed Duke University's Center for International Development Research . He studies strategic planning, policymaking in developing countries, natural resource and environmental policy, Latin American and Asian political economy, political psychology, and forecasting methods.

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William Ascher's Published Works

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Published Works

An ecological approach to creating active living communities. (2006) (2690)
Forecasting: An Appraisal for Policy-Makers and Planners. (1978) (373)
Why Governments Waste Natural Resources: Policy Failures in Developing Countries (1999) (287)
Valuing the protection of ecological systems and services; a report of the EPA Science Advisory Board (2009) (173)
Communities and Sustainable Forestry in Developing Countries (1994) (140)
Public involvement methods in natural resource policy making: Advantages, disadvantages and trade-offs (1997) (134)
Coping with Complexity and Organizational Interests in Natural Resource Management (2001) (93)
New development approaches and the adaptability of international agencies: the case of the World Bank (1983) (91)
Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries: Environment, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution (1990) (77)
Knowledge in the policy process: Incorporating new environmental information in natural resources policy making (1995) (70)
Science and social responsibility (1992) (67)
Knowledge and Environmental Policy: Re-Imagining the Boundaries of Science and Politics (2010) (63)
Nature and Society: An Imperative for Integrated Environmental Research (2000) (56)
From Oil to Timber: The Political Economy of Off-Budget Development Financing in Indonesia (1998) (51)
Scheming for the Poor: The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America (1984) (50)
The forecasting potential of complex models (1981) (46)
Scientific information and uncertainty: Challenges for the use of science in policymaking (2004) (38)
Strategic Planning and Forecasting: Political Risk and Economic Opportunity (1983) (38)
Editorial: Policy sciences and the economic approach in a ‘post-positivist’ era (1987) (36)
Policy sciences contributions to analysis to promote sustainability (2007) (35)
The evolution of the policy sciences: Understanding the rise and avoiding the fall (1986) (32)
Bringing in the Future: Strategies for Farsightedness and Sustainability in Developing Countries (2009) (28)
The ambiguous nature of forecasts in project evaluation: Diagnosing the over-optimism of rate-of-return analysis (1993) (28)
The Stability of Communist Electorates: Evidence from a Longitudinal Analysis of French and Italian Aggregate Data* (1975) (28)
Valuation in the environmental policy process (2006) (21)
Revitalizing Political Psychology: The Legacy of Harold D. Lasswell (2004) (20)
The Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security (2000) (19)
Problems of forecasting and technology assessment (1979) (18)
Understanding Why Government in Developing Countries Waste Natural Resources (2000) (17)
The Evolution of Postwar Doctrines in Development Economics (1996) (17)
Resolving the hidden differences among perspectives on sustainable development (1999) (17)
Linking Lasswell’s political psychology and the policy sciences (2004) (16)
The Moralism of Attitudes Supporting Intergroup Violence (1986) (16)
Long-term strategy for sustainable development: strategies to promote far-sighted action (2006) (16)
Strategic planning and forecasting (1983) (16)
Political forecasting: The missing link (1982) (14)
Harold D. Lasswell : an annotated bibliography (1992) (12)
Economic development strategies and the evolution of violence in Latin America (2012) (11)
Physical infrastructure development : balancing the growth, equity, and environmental imperatives (2010) (9)
Restructuring the arrangements between government and state enterprises in the oil and mining sectors (1998) (9)
Mineral Wealth, Development, and Social Policy in Indonesia (2012) (9)
Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Africa (2013) (8)
Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Conflict (2011) (7)
Subjectivity and the Policy Sciences (1987) (7)
Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries (2017) (6)
The economic roots of conflict and cooperation in Africa (2013) (6)
Technologies of Mediation: An Assessment of Methods for the Mediation of International Conflicts (1986) (6)
Rethinking Physical Infrastructure Development (2010) (6)
Limits of “expert systems” for political- economic forecasting (1989) (5)
Evolving Roles of NGOs in Developing Countries (2016) (4)
Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence: Insights on Conflict-Sensitive Development (2015) (4)
Development strategies, identities, and conflict in Asia (2013) (4)
Rescuing responsible hydropower projects (2021) (4)
Scheming for the Poor: The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America. (1985) (4)
Science and forestry policy in Costa Rica and Honduras (1993) (4)
The Evolution of Development Thinking (2016) (3)
Distributional Implications of Alternative Financing of Physical Infrastructure Development (2010) (3)
Keeping the faith: policy sciences as the gatekeeper (2017) (3)
Bringing in the Future (2009) (2)
Cultural change and persistence : new perspectives on development (2012) (2)
Revitalizing political psychology (2004) (2)
Survey of issues in government policy and public management of state oil and mining companies in developing countries (1994) (2)
Strategic planning of institutional reform: improving policy outcomes through more accountable structures (1997) (2)
Environmental Policy and Science (2012) (2)
Political Economy Considerations (2020) (2)
The Evolution of Development Thinking: Governance, Economics, Assistance, and Security (2016) (2)
Coping with intelligence deficits in poverty-alleviation policies in low-income countries (2021) (2)
Physical Infrastructure Development (2010) (2)
Coping with the disappointing rates of return on development projects that affect the environment (1992) (2)
Central American Recovery and Development Task Force report to the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development (1989) (1)
Summary Minutes of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Expert Elicitation Advisory Panel Public Meeting, February 25-26, 2009 (2009) (1)
L asswell, H arold D. (2016) (1)
Main Factors Behind Development and Environmental Change (2002) (1)
Evolution of Governance and Development Administration Practice (2016) (1)
Evolution of Governance and Development Administration Theory (2016) (1)
Comments on "A Cross-Cultural Theory of Political Conflict and Violence" (1986) (1)
Renewable Energy on Tribal Lands: A Feasibility Study for a Biomass-to-Energy Plant on the Cocopah Reservation in Arizona (2019) (1)
Safeguarding the enthusiasm for environmental studies: small is even more beautiful than before (2018) (1)
Normative Considerations in Promoting Cultural Preservation or Change (2010) (1)
Rethinking Culture and Development (2010) (1)
Evolution of Economic Development Theories and Doctrines since World War II (2016) (1)
Development Strategies and Violence (2016) (1)
Decentralization: Shifting the Locus of Conflict (2016) (1)
Inducing Better Stakeholder Searches for Environmental Information Relevant to Coastal Conservation (2014) (1)
Physical Infrastructure as a Challenge for Farsighted Thinking and Action (2010) (1)
The Psychology of Poverty Alleviation (2020) (1)
Evolution of Foreign Assistance Theories and Doctrines (2016) (0)
The Brewer-Kakalik research on services for handicapped children: A paradigm of applied policy sciences (2002) (0)
Upstreaml/downstream: Issues in environmental ethics, edited by Donald Scherer. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1991, 242 pp. Price: $37.95 cloth (1992) (0)
The Conflict-Development Nexus in Africa: Insights from the Case Studies (2013) (0)
14. Structuring Decision-Making Processes (2019) (0)
The Perils of Liberalization: Prices, Market Access, and privatization (2016) (0)
Challenges to Effective Development Policymaking (2017) (0)
The Challenges of Conflict-Sensitive Poverty Alleviation (2020) (0)
Technodiplomacy and Environmental Cooperation: Lessons for the Caspian (2000) (0)
Inconsistent or Incomplete Enactment of Initiatives (2017) (0)
10. Design Dimensions of Communicating Farsighted Appeals (2019) (0)
Keeping the faith: policy sciences as the gatekeeper (2017) (0)
1. The Challenge of Farsightedness (2019) (0)
12. Managing Heuristics (2019) (0)
The Triple Appeal Principle (2009) (0)
Conclusions: Intertwining Cultural Adaptation and Economic Development (2010) (0)
Bibliographic Note This Report Draws on a Wide Range of World Bank Docu- Ments and on Numerous outside Sources. Background Pa- Pers and Notes Were Prepared (2002) (0)
Books Available for Review as at 30 August 2010 (2010) (0)
3. Gaining Traction to Overcome Obstacles to Farsightedness (2019) (0)
6. Realigning Performance Evaluation (2019) (0)
Coping with intelligence deficits in poverty-alleviation policies in low-income countries (2021) (0)
Communism in Italy and France. Edited by Blackmer Donald L. M. and Tarrow Sidney. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. xviii + 651. $25.00, cloth; $9.75, paper.) (1978) (0)
Basic Concepts of Development and Environment (2002) (0)
Evolving Roles of the Military in Developing Countries (2016) (0)
8. Analytic Exercises (2019) (0)
The Securitization of Foreign Aid. Edited by Stephen Brown and Jörn Grävingholt. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 267p. $109.00. (2016) (0)
The ConflictâDevelopment Nexus in Africa (2013) (0)
Development-Violence Pathways (2016) (0)
Human Capital versus Basic Income: Ideology and Models for Anti-Poverty Programs in Latin America. By Fabián A. Borges. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. 288p. $70.00 cloth, $34.95 paper. (2022) (0)
Tom Bryder, Essays on the Policy Sciences and the Psychology of Politics and Propaganda, Växjö University Press, Göteborg, Sweden, 2004 (2004) (0)
The Politics of Rent Distribution and Latin American Natural Resource Policy (2021) (0)
Science in Environmental Policy: The Politics of Objective Advice . By Ann Campbell Keller. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 304p. $52.00 cloth, $26.00 paper. (2011) (0)
Major Problems of Environmental Degradation and Development (2002) (0)
Challenges of Regional Development (2016) (0)
Grabbing Assets and Opportunities (2016) (0)
The political economy of Philippine food policy (1990) (0)
INO volume 37 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1983) (0)
Claremont McKenna College The Past and Future of Migration , Poverty , and Small-Scale Agriculture in Mexico Submitted to Professor (2022) (0)
The Policy Process in Developing Countries Really Is Different (2017) (0)
Moving toward International Cooperation in the Caspian Region: Insights from the Workshop (2000) (0)
International Political Economy of Environment and Development (2002) (0)
International Development in the American Grain: From Point Four to the Present (2016) (0)
War, Peace, and Many Shades in Between (2013) (0)
5. Creating and Rescheduling Social and Psychological Rewards (2019) (0)
Assumption drag in economic development (1999) (0)
The Conflict-Development Nexus in Asia: Policy Approaches (2013) (0)
Conclusion: Linkages and Challenges (2016) (0)
Response to Fabián A. Borges’s Review of The Psychology of Poverty Alleviation: Challenges in Developing Countries (2022) (0)
Conditional Cash Transfers (2020) (0)
Inadequate Accommodation for Excessive Deprivation (2017) (0)
Summary Minutes of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Expert Elicitation Advisory Panel Meeting Public Teleconference, April 22, 2009 (2009) (0)
2. The Root Causes of Shortsightedness and Their Manifestations in Developing Countries (2019) (0)
Brazil’s Future Foreign Relations (2019) (0)
Book Reviews : R. Bilski, I. Galnoor, D. Inbar, Y. Manor and G. Sheffer, (Eds.), Can Politics Replace Planning? The Israeli Experience. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1980. Pp. 337. No index. Guilders 79 (1982) (0)
War, Peace, and Many Shades in Between: Asia in the New Millennium (2013) (0)
Overcoming the Impasses That Block Sound Initiatives (2017) (0)
On the Convergence of Efficiency and Equity via Neoclassical Prescriptions (1989) (0)
Psychic Conflict in Spanish America: Six Essays on the Psychohistory of the Region (1982) (0)
Psychology of Conflict and Development (2016) (0)
The Conflict-Development Nexus in Asia (2013) (0)
Scientific Information and Natural Resource Politics : Positive and Negative Interactions (2003) (0)
Lessons from Pro-Poor Policy Instruments (2020) (0)
Pitfalls of Macroeconomic Decisions (2016) (0)
Coping with the disappointing rates of return of development projects with environmental impacts (1991) (0)
Dimensions of Communicating Farsighted Appeals (2009) (0)
Adapting Policy Initiatives and Institutions (2017) (0)
Complementarity of Security and Development Doctrines: Historical Cases and Aftermaths (2016) (0)
Books Received (2000) (0)
Book reviews (1983) (0)
An Assessment of Simon's methodology of natural resource forecasting (1985) (0)
Resettlement Strategies: For Better or for Worse (2016) (0)
Books Received (2000) (0)
Reducing Avoidable Conflict (2017) (0)
Business, ethics, and the environment: The public policy debate, edited by W. M. Hoffman, R. Frederick, and E. S. Petry, Jr. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1990, 280 pp. Price: $45.00 cloth (2007) (0)
Economic Policy and Program Practice (2016) (0)
Deepening Problem Definitions (2009) (0)
Cultural Change and Persistence (2010) (0)
The Expert’s Frustration: Rejection of Sound Knowledge or Recommendations (2017) (0)
International norm-setting by civil society organizations: Lessons for strengthening norms pertaining to legal empowerment of the poor (2013) (0)
Confrontations over Natural Resources (2016) (0)
13. Empowering and Insulating the Farsighted Leader (2019) (0)
The Expert’s Risk: Endorsing Ill-Fated Initiatives (2017) (0)
4. Creating and Rescheduling Tangible Benefits and Costs (2019) (0)
Coping with the ambiguities of poverty-alleviation programs and policies: a policy sciences approach (2022) (0)
The Nexus of Economic Strategies and Intergroup Conflict in Asia (2013) (0)
Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence (2016) (0)
Corporations, ethics, and the environment, edited by W. M. Hoffman, R. Frederick, and E. S. Petry, Jr. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1990, 330 pp. Price: $45.00 cloth (2007) (0)
Self-Restraint Instruments (2009) (0)
Social Services and Societal Fragility (2016) (0)
Minimizing Shortsighted Policies (2017) (0)
Expanding the “Geography” of Policy Options to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Commentary on Hari Osofsky’s The Geography of Solving Global Environmental Problems (2014) (0)

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