Realistic human rationality departs from ideal theories of rationality and meaning developed in epistemology and economics because in human life deliberation takes time and effort, ignorance and inconsistency do not deter action, and learning takes time and slows with time. This paper examines some theories of mental change with an eye to assessing their adequacy for characterizing realistic li...

May’s (1952) celebrated characterization of the simple majority rule appealed to four properties: decisiveness, neutrality, anonymity and positive responsiveness. The impression that they are too strong for this job was, however, extremely appealing. The aim of this paper is to present characterizations of the majority rule that appeal to properties which substantially weaken some of May’s axio...

Limited attention has been paid so far to the impacts of war on proximate determinants fertility, including childbearing preferences. This study explores relationship between exposure local conflict violence and fertility desires in Colombia. I combined nationally representative micro-level data timing, frequency decisiveness reproductive preferences from Demographic Health Surveys, with geospa...

During the crystal growth process, temperature distribution in reactor plays a decisive role and directly affects rate. In this study, numerical simulation method was used to model study PVT AlN reactor. By adjusting relative position of heater crucible, different field structures are obtained. The effect gradients on decisiveness rate is explored analyzed, best scheme selected. With help techn...

The paper deals with initiation and destiny of the unique 1994 Program combating extreme Serbian hyperinflation. Despite originality decisiveness which related steps had been undertaken, lasted not much more than half a year. It turned out to be unsustainable as it is collided inefficient institutional framework where contracts rule law were honored, employees, in self-managed firms, decided on...

The study aims to examine the formation of and interrelationship between career importance, decisiveness, aspirations among students. data used in came from ‘School experience, educational scholastic achievement Qatar’ survey 2018-2020 (SEEASAP). A sample 841 students aged 12–14 was for analysis. results this showed that future orientation young people tends be fragmented incoherent. Believing ...

The article explores aspects of the role of prosody as a contextualization cue in aphasic conversation through auditory and acoustic analysis of an aphasic speaker's use of pitch variation in responses to closed yes/no-requests. The results reveal two prosodic realizations of 'yes' and 'no' contextualizing different kinds of responses: a flat realization with no prolongation and minimal pauses,...

We present a suite of Bayes factor hypothesis tests that allow researchers to grade the decisiveness of the evidence that the data provide for the presence versus the absence of a correlation between two variables. For concreteness, we apply our methods to the recent work of Donnellan et al. (in press) who conducted nine replication studies with over 3,000 participants and failed to replicate t...

Three perspectives on delegation in the European Union are presented in this article. The transactioncosts perspective focuses on information asymmetries between policy makers and implementers. According to the commitment perspective, policy makers delegate authority as a solution to commitment problems. The consensus-building perspective views the decision to delegate as a trade-off between de...

What explains the creation of EU corona recovery fund? Why did Union agree on a large-scale financial response to pandemic, despite member states' very different immediate reactions crisis and their opposing attitudes towards common debt? This article argues for decisiveness France Germany's role within tight bilateral political cooperation. The ‘embedded bilateralism’ approach European integra...