Deliberating about Dollars: The Severity Shift

Deliberating about voting dimensions

It has been claimed that deliberation is capable of overcoming social choice theory impossibility results, by bringing about singlepeakedness. Our aim is to better understand the relationship between single-peakedness and collective justifications of preferences.

Deliberating about race as a variable in biomedical research.

Race as a variable in research ethics is investigated: to what extent is it morally appropriate to regard the race of research subjects as pivotal for research outcomes? The challenges it poses to deliberation in research ethics committees are considered, and it is concluded that race sometimes must be considered, subject to clearly stated qualifications.

Deliberating Collective Decisions

We present a dynamic model of sequential information acquisition by a heterogeneous committee. At each date agents decide whether to vote to adopt one of two alternatives or continue to collect more information. The process stops when a qualified majority vote for an alternative. Three main insights emerge from our analysis and match an array of stylized facts on committee decision making. Firs...

JEMS 2007 salary & workplace survey. In a world run on dollars, what about the people?

F or years, EMS managers have focused on " hard management " issues, such as improving response performance, controlling costs and increasing reimbursement rates. When it comes to the people in their organization , however, many managers still believe a job and a paycheck are incentive enough to want to stay on the job and work hard. But tides are changing. The pool of workers has shrunk, oppor...

Citizens Deliberating Online: Theory and Some Evidence