Results 11 to 20 of about 2,749 (119)
Comparative Political Studies, 2022 Accepting defeat in political decision-making is crucial for the health of democracies. At the same time, being a good loser is challenging. How can citizens be motivated to be gracious about various types of political loss? In this paper, we study whether political leaders can play an important role in boosting the perceived quality of decision ...
Esaiasson, Peter +2 more
openaire +3 more sources
Modelling Winners and Losers in Contingent Valuation of Public Goods: Appropriate Welfare Measures and Econometric Analysis [PDF]
The Economic Journal, 2001 Contingent valuation is now the most widely used method for valuing non-marketed goods in cost-benefit analysis. Yet, despite the fact that many externalities manifest themselves as costs to some and benefits to others, most studies restrict willingness to pay to being non-negative. This can result in significant errors in policymaking.
Clinch, J. Peter, Murphy, Anthony
openaire +2 more sources
Kriterion, 2011 Para Hume, filosofar é uma atividade semelhante às demais ocupações humanas. A decisão que leva à atividade filosófica é menos resultado de uma argumentação teórica do que fruto de um cálculo prático, que é entendido como uma caça ou um jogo.
Márcio Suzuki
doaj +1 more source
Russia–China Economic Relations in the 21st Century: Unrealized Potential or Predetermined Outcome?
Chinese Journal of International Review, 2020 In the first decade of the 21st century, Moscow and Beijing made two strategic decisions to expand and deepen bilateral economic relations. The first one was to endorse diversified energy partnership.
Viktor Larin
doaj +1 more source
A simulation study for comparing testing statistics in response-adaptive randomization
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2010 Background Response-adaptive randomizations are able to assign more patients in a comparative clinical trial to the tentatively better treatment. However, due to the adaptation in patient allocation, the samples to be compared are no longer independent ...
Lee J Jack, Gu Xuemin
doaj +1 more source
Profile of characters involved in tobacco appearances in Brazilian TV programs
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background Favorable images of smoking in the media have been pointed out as a potential motivator of the initiation to nicotine addiction. This study aimed to analyze the profile of the characters involved in tobacco appearances in Brazilian TV ...
Caroline Cortes +7 more
doaj +1 more source
«LOSERS, GOOD GUYS, COOL KIDS» THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS
The monitoring of public opinion economic&social changes, 2017 Описывается эмпирическое исследование, посвященное поколению NEET, проживающему в Венгрии. Под поколением NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) принято понимать молодежь, которая в силу социально-экономических или политических факторов нигде не ра-ботает и не учится. Авторы представили анализ качественных интервью, который раскрывает проблемы
Judit CSOBA, Peter HERRMANN
openaire +2 more sources
Right radicalism: A luxury good for globalization losers in equal societies?
Politica, 2018 Electoral support of radical right parties (RRPs) varies significantly between European countries. In Denmark and the Netherlands, these parties enjoy electoral popularity, while similar support is absent in Portugal and Estonia. We investigate whether economic inequality affects the support of RRPs, and whether the effect is most pronounced among ...
David Vestergård Ulrichsen +1 more
openaire +1 more source
Egalitarian reward contingency in competitive games and primate prefrontal neuronal activity
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2015 How people work to obtain a reward depends on the context of the reward delivery, such as the presence/absence of competition and the contingency of reward delivery. Since resources are limited, winning a competition is critically important for organisms’
Takayuki eHosokawa +2 more
doaj +1 more source
The evolution of cooperative turn-taking in animal conflict
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background A fundamental assumption in animal socio-ecology is that animals compete over limited resources. This view has been challenged by the finding that individuals might cooperatively partition resources by "taking turns".
Franz Mathias +3 more
doaj +1 more source