Revisiting Raz: A Reply

Revisiting Risk and Rationality: A Reply to Pettigrew and Briggs

I have claimed that risk-weighted expected utility (REU) maximizers are rational, and that their preferences cannot be captured by expected utility (EU) theory. Richard Pettigrew and Rachael Briggs have recently challenged these claims. Both authors argue that only EU-maximizers are rational. In addition, Pettigrew argues that the preferences of REU-maximizers can indeed be captured by EU theor...

All data collection and analysis methods have limitations: reply to Rabbitt (2011) and Raz and Lindenberger (2011).

The commentaries on my article contain a number of points with which I disagree but also several with which I agree. For example, I continue to believe that the existence of many cases in which between-person variability does not increase with age indicates that greater variance with increased age is not inevitable among healthy individuals up to about 80 years of age. I also do not believe tha...

The Authors’ Reply

Revisiting the two-dimensional approach to mimetics: a reply to Kita (1997)1

In this response I would like to take up the issues that have motivated the two-dimensional approach to mimetics in Japanese advanced by Kita (1997). Kita claims that mimetics belong to the affecto-imagistic dimension while other word classes belong to the analytic dimension, and that the semantic properties of mimetics are not fully integrated with the other parts of a sentence. I will demonst...

Evaluating and revisiting the public government: a policy feedback perspective

Existing models of quality evaluation in public sector are mainly derived from the approaches within private sector. These models which represented by the New Public Management (NPM) paradigm, don&rsquot reflect the fundamental values of public administration, which are the very essence of the discipline and contrasting it from private sector. These core values, such as democratic citizenship, ...