Corruption: Not A Taboo For Indonesians

Not Up for Discussion: Applying Lukes’ Power Model to the Study of Health System Corruption; Comment on “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems”

This companion paper suggests the potential benefits of applying Steven Lukes’ dimensions of power model to the study of corruption in health systems. Lukes’ model sets out three “faces of power” classified by their influence on political discourse, resulting in overt, covert and latent discussion of issues depending on the degree of their alignment with the agenda of d...

Dutch taboo norms

This article provides norms for general taboo, personal taboo, insult, valence, and arousal for 672 Dutch words, including 202 taboo words. Norms were collected using a 7-point Likert scale and based on ratings by psychology students from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands. The sample consisted of 87 psychology students (58 females, 29 males). We obtained high reliability based...

a theoretical pattern for controlling administrative corruption

administrative corruption, is a phenomenon which more or less in all societies have been in different degrees and by no means is not limited to a special group of countries. of course undersanding of each society according to its cultural links is different from the other concepts of other countries; these are many cases which their occurance in a country is a general task but at the other coun...

Agreed but not preferred: expert views on taboo options for biodiversity conservation, given climate change.

Recent research indicates increasing openness among conservation experts toward a set of previously controversial proposals for biodiversity protection. These include actions such as assisted migration, and the application of climate-change-informed triage principles for decision-making (e.g., forgoing attention to target species deemed no longer viable). Little is known however, about the leve...

The last taboo?