Based off of Mayr's theory of allopatric speciation, it was first proposed in a 1972 paper by Nils Eldredge and Steven Jay Gould.  
A 2006 paper by Given explored how this biological mechanism related to social policy towards the tobacco industry, while Kathleen Eisenhardt used it to describe how administrative organizations change.  Richard Dawkins has argued that the fossil record does not validate this mechanism.  One of the co-proposers of it stated that cladogenesis predicted by it would occur in small, isolated populations.  Based off of Mayr's theory of allopatric speciation, it was first proposed in a 1972 paper by Nils Eldredge and Steven Jay Gould.  For 10 points, name this theory of evolution which states that relatively long periods of evolutionary stability occur between relatively short periods of rapid change.
A 2006 paper by Given explored how this biological mechanism related to social policy towards the tobacco industry, while Kathleen Eisenhardt used it to describe how administrative organizations change.  
{Punctuated Equilibrium}