Search Results - subject:"SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS"

From Individual Attitudes towards Migrants to Migration Policy Outcomes : Theory and Evidence

Facchini, Giovanni - 2009

In democratic societies individual attitudes of voters represent the foundations of policy making. We start by analyzing patterns in public opinion on migration and find that, across countries of different income levels, only a small minority of voters favor more open migration policies. Next we...

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Voting By Altruists : Some Electoral Implications of Civic Virtue

Congleton, Roger D. - 2009

This paper examines some neglected implications of altruism in deterministic voting models in settings where voters differ in their altruistic propensities. Of particular interest is the extent to which relatively small groups of altruistic voters can affect electoral outcomes by simply casting...

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Patriotism, Taxation and International Mobility

Qari, Salmai - 2009

For patriotic citizens, living in their native country is intrinsically preferable compared to living in the diaspora. In this paper, we analyze the implications of such a patriotic lock-in in a world with international migration and redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution...

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New Evidence on the Formation of Trade Policy Preferences

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2009

This paper revisits the issue of people's preferences for international trade protection examining survey data from the American National Election Studies. I first show that both an individual's skills and the international trade characteristics of their employment industry affects their trade...

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The next K-Wave and the challenge of global democracy

Wilenius, Markku - In: Foresight 17 (2015) 1, pp. 35-52

Purpose – The aim of the project on which this paper is based is to clarify – using Kondratieff theory of long-term socio-economic cycles – how the next (sixth) wave will look like. The focus lies in the socio-political aspect of change. Design/methodology/approach – The article is a...

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Establishing How Natural Environmental Competency, Organizational Social Consciousness, and Innovativeness Relate

Dibrell, Clay; Craig, Justin; Kim, Jaemin; Johnson, Aaron - In: Journal of Business Ethics 127 (2015) 3, pp. 591-605

This article investigates the moderating effects of organizational social consciousness on the natural environmental … competency and innovativeness relationship. Organizational social consciousness reflects the organization’s awareness of its … makers from organizations located in the USA, we operationalize organizational social consciousness and demonstrate the …

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