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Wildavsky is perhaps most famous for his role in developing the Cultural Theory of risk. In 1982, he and anthropologist Mary Douglas wrote Risk and Culture. This book was both a critique of environmentalists, which they argued shared a worldview with sectarian groups like the Amish, as well as an initial statement of Cultural Theory. Later, he co-authored Cultural Theory with Richard Ellis and Michael Thompson, expanding the Cultural Theory concept and showing how it related to earlier theories in political science and anthropology.
*Winner of the 1996 [[Grawemeyer Award]] <ref>[http://grawemeyer.org/winners/previous-winners.html/ Previous Winners], Grawemeyer Awards, accessed March 23, 2009.</ref>
== Involvement with the Tobacco Industry ==
Widavsky was a supporter of TASSC, the [[The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition]], a front group set up by [[Philip Morris]] through a public relations firm.
Wildavsky was also a paid consultant to the tobacco industry in 1979. He completed a project for the [[International Committee on Smoking Issues]] (ICOSI) [[Social Acceptability Working Party]] (SAWP)(ICOSI/SAWP)analyzing anti-smoking groups with regard to their organization, leadership and publications. Payments to Wildavsky were made through the tobacco industry's law firm of Jacob, Medinger, which managed "Special Account No. 4" (external research programs) for the industry. Special Account #4 was established to fund research by selected expert witnesses in preparation of testimony either directly related to a particular case, or prepared witnesses to testify at congressional or other public hearings, or other research the lawyers deemed useful to the industry.[<ref>Stanton Glantz. John Slade. Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer. Deborah E. Barnes; Regents of the University of California [http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft8489p25j&brand=eschol Glantz et al, The Cigarette Papers, Chapter 8, Lawyer Management of Scientific Research] The University of California Press. 1998.</ref>]<ref>[http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/zfx36e00Minutes of the Thirteenth Meeting of ICOSI / SAWP Brussels 791023 - 791024] Meeting minutes. October 24, 1979. Philip Morris Bates No. 2023024461/4470</ref> [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/toe99d00][http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ase99d00][http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ooe99d00]
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