Those in the treatment groups received informational displays on (i) the perception of corruption as widespread in the public sector (descriptive norm) or (ii) corruption as morally wrong (injunctive norm). The control group did not receive a message. Exposure to messages on corruption increased ...
Occasionally, our Mac computers exhibit peculiar behaviors that disrupt our perception of their stability and flawlessness. We often regard our Apple Computers as infallible until they encounter issues, and then chaos ensues. So, what can be done to restore our once-pristine machines to their norma...
The use of corporate power to undermine public health policy processes is increasingly well understood; however, relatively little scholarship examines how advocates can leverage power to promote the successful adoption of public health policies. The objective of this paper is to explore how advocates l...
(seeIn The House). Anyone who reads this link and continues to deny the existence of an esoteric body of important truths that Jesus could not, and did not, in any measure reveal to the multitude of hears when he spoke and taught, is delusional and in denial of what the Gospels ...
4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.If I may, I would add a fifth point:5. Once you have presented a rebuttal or criticism, search the text in question to see if the author has already considered and responded to your criticism; and if...
The world’s least-developed economies score an average of 0.35 (on a scale of 0 to 1) on the UN E-Government Development Index; the global average is 0.61. In an interconnected world, it is imperative to bridge this gap, says Vincenzo Aquaro, Chief of Digital Governm...
A large strand of the literature takes data from social surveys to measure associations between happiness and self-reported behavioural traits, such as selfishness or trust. This approach requires one now to accept the validity not only of self-reported happiness but also of self-reported behaviour...
Perceived fairness is a subjective measure of people’s feelings on health care inequality. Together, they can provide an overall description of the public’s perception on the health system. In addition to describing the trends, we adopt a previous analytical framework of satisfaction with the ...
A few years ago (as I’m sure you know) there was a push to measure the costs of such things, the “green GDP.” It failed. Again we’re back to metrics. The fact that China is so much larger than Taiwan, Korea or Singapore, also means that there isn’t a clear model for ...
Our measure of globalization is generated from the KOF Globalization Index (of more than 200 countries for the year 2017), published by the KOF Swiss Economic InstituteFootnote 2 [26]. The KOF Globalization Index is made up of 44 individual variables (24 de facto and 20 de jure components)...