We examine the implications, for social choice, of individuals having an intrinsic sense of fairness. Taking the viewpoint that social justice reflects the moral attitudes of the constituent members, we analyze the effect of the intensity of the individual sense of fairness on the solution of Nash bargaining over random allocation procedures. We use a stylized model of university admission poli...

When providing social accounts (Sitkin & Bies, 1993) for the unethical conduct of subordinates, leaders may use language consistent with cognitive strategies described by Bandura (1991, 1999) in his work on moral disengagement. That is, leader's social accounts may reframe or reconstrue subordinates' unethical conduct such that it appears less reprehensible. We predict observers will respond ne...

:Studying the inter-play between social capital and corruption aversion in a context subject to institutional dysfunctions like Palestinian Territories may help understand mechanisms of governance legitimacy. By using unique survey conducted 2007 Territories, we find that increases with civic spirits is lower among individuals involved voluntary activities. Furthermore, increase trust importanc...

Problem, research strategy, and findings Here we illuminate the often overlooked, yet pernicious impacts of corruption in planning. We used a sequential mixed-methods approach, inclusive survey 82 planning practitioners Ghana semistructured interviews with 17 these respondents, to investigate planners’ experiences corruption. found that incentives for corrupt behaviors, structured by particular...

A bibliography on public corruption (moral, political, financial, judiciary) especially focusing contemporary Spain. From 'A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology' (2021), http://bit.ly/abibliog.

The study of morality has been approached from different perspectives within several disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and psychology. In psychology, proponents of the major theoretical approaches have attempted to explain the acquisition or development of morality. Behavioristic and social learning theorists have proposed that moral development entails a process of ac...

As in most of the developing countries, corruption is becoming one of the serious challenges in the process China is striding forward to modernization. However, corruption in China is different in nature and extent from that in other nations due to the political structure and reform policy China has implemented. This paper devotes to differentiating typologies of corruption, analyzing the cause...