Cultural evolutionary public policy

Cultural Cognition and Public Policy

Cultural Heritage Information - Public Policy Choices

This conference provides a wonderful opportunity to see and hear about some very exciting examples )f how information about cultural heritage can be presented for public education and enjoyment. I1 would be tempting to take this time to explore arange of questions related to the technology itself. Whai works, what doesn't work? How have the needs of different users been taken into account? Wha ...

Why Evolutionary Biology Is Crucial for Effective Public Health Policy

(Jasienski and Bazzaz 1999). Scientists tend to rely on indexes that are meant to capture the essence of the processes, but unfortunately, such indexes are very often ratios of several measurable variables. This gives us an illusion of simplicity by reducing the number of variables but makes statistical analyses less powerful and, more importantly, sweeps under the carpet the actual form of int...

نقد و تحلیل کتاب « Public Finance and Public Policy»

بحث درباره جایگاه مطلوب بخش عمومی (دولت) در اقتصاد از دیرباز مورد توجه مکاتب گوناگون فکری قرار داشته و به علت اهمیت وافر وارد برنامه‌های رسمی دانشگاه‌ها در سراسر جهان شده است. هدف این مقاله تحلیل و نقد کتاب درسی مالیه عمومی و سیاست عمومی تألیف جاناتان گروبر است که از جدیدترین کتاب‌های درسی این حوزه به شمار می‌رود و هم اکنون در تعداد قابل توجهی از دانشگاه‌های مطرح جهان به عنوان کتاب درسی اصلی اق...

Cultural cognition and public policy: the case of outpatient commitment laws.

What explains controversy over outpatient commitment laws (OCLs), which authorize courts to order persons with mental illness to accept outpatient treatment? We hypothesized that attitudes toward OCLs reflect "cultural cognition" (DiMaggio, P. Annl Rev Sociol 23:263-287, 1997), which motivates individuals to conform their beliefs about policy-relevant facts to their cultural values. In a study ...