107159 research outputs found
Sort by
Perspective-getting, -taking and -integrating: cultivating procedural justice turn-by-turn to manage heated conflicts
Get PDFOrganisational authorities must sometimes manage heated multiparty conflicts in uncontrolled settings. In these dynamic conflicts, satisfying all parties is rarely achievable, and thus fostering experiences of procedural justice, or fair process, is crucial. However, few studies have examined how organisational authorities’ situated communicative activities create such experiences. Previous research has identified perspective-getting (eliciting perspectives), perspective-taking (understanding perspectives), and, to a lesser degree, perspective-integrating (coordinating perspectives) as potentially important. Still, we do not know how these activities are done, whether they are associated with perceived procedural justice, nor their underlying mechanisms. We propose the PGTI model of perspective-getting, -taking, and -integrating to conceptualise how organisational authorities’ communicative activities can create procedural justice interactionally turn-by-turn. This model was explored in a field study of 58 police trainees attempting to resolve a heated conflict in a public park. Combining observational measures (body-worn video) with self-report surveys, we used a test-explore design to (1) test the statistical associations between perspective-getting, -taking, and -integrating with stakeholder experiences of procedural justice and (2) explore qualitatively how these communicative activities might lead to perceived procedural justice. We found that perspective-getting, -taking, and -integrating had discriminant validity and were associated with perceptions of procedural justice. We argue that the mechanisms that lead from these communicative processes to procedural justice are the core components of procedural justice, namely voice, respect, neutrality, and benevolence. This novel model has high ecological validity because it is directly observable in the interactions, and it is useful because the communicative activities can be trained and supported. The theoretical contribution is a grounded model of the mechanisms through which perspective-getting, -taking, and -integrating can lead to perceptions of procedural justice turn-by-turn, within heated conflicts
“It’s scary to plan for the future” – understanding the concerns, needs and hopes of young people in Ukraine
Get PDFThe war in Ukraine has had a profound impact on young people living in the country. Drawing on new research, Mariia Zolkina, Max Fras and Elisabet Vives explore what young people think about the conflict and their hopes for the future
Separation of powers
Get PDFChapter 6 on Separation of Powers offers a comprehensive exploration of how the balance of power between the judiciary and other branches of government plays out in climate litigation. The authors critically analyse key cases where these doctrines have been invoked, shedding light on how these doctrines shape the courts’ approach to climate cases. They underscore the significant variation in how this issue is dealt with across jurisdictions, acknowledging the diversity of constitutional and legal frameworks globally. Despite this diversity, the authors distil an emerging best practice where courts are increasingly recognising their crucial role in safeguarding fundamental rights and constitutional values in the context of climate change. This recognition is not a one-directional or universal trend but a nuanced evolution detectable across various jurisdictions and legal systems
Non-renewable natural capital and the social cost of carbon in wealth accounting
No full textFossil fuels represent a significant portion of the wealth of resource-rich nations – up to 35% (on average) of total national wealth across the Middle East and North Africa, according to the World Bank (2021). But combusting these resources releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, driving costly climate change, ultimately reducing natural capital, productive capacity, and the inclusive wealth of nations. Yet, in most wealth accounting studies, fossil fuel assets are valued in isolation from their broader social costs. This study incorporates the social cost of carbon (SCC) — the present value of the future damage costs resulting from a marginal increase in emissions — into mainstream approaches to valuing fossil fuel stocks. We find that the value of fossil fuel reserves is sensitive to the carbon price, the extraction and decarbonisation pathway, and the discount rate. The results have implications for how fossil fuels should be valued in wealth accounts, how they should be reflected in national statistics, and the future of wealth in fossil-fuel rich economies
Essays on the economic geography of innovation
No full textThis thesis consists of three solo-authored chapters. Essay I asks: Does the advent of transformative new technology opportunities impact the ways firms structure R&D and production across space? And how does this process give rise to new clusters in new places? Essay II asks: Did the professionalization of U.S. electronics engineers shape the rate and mode of U.S. innovation during the invention golden age? I study how the growth of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) - the largest cross-sectoral engineering association in the early U.S. electronics industry - facilitated corporate fundamental research geographically during the U.S. invention golden age of the 1940s–1960s. Essay III asks: Did Japanese trade in the 1980s impact the geography of U.S. firm innovation? The rise of Japanese trade in the 1980s marked a critical moment when the most advanced U.S. industries faced existential risk from import competition. Using a novel firm-level dynamic measure of exposure to Japanese trade, I provide robust empirical evidence of a positive causal link between exposure to high-tech Japanese import penetration and U.S. domestic innovation. By answering these questions, this essay seek to advance our current understanding on how new clusters originate during the “periodical bursts” of radical innovations
Why is procedural fairness in health financing valuable?
No full textA previous post proposed a framework for fair—that is, open and inclusive—ways of making decisions on how to finance Universal Health Coverage (UHC). However, some critics question the value of procedural fairness. In this post, which draws on a co-authored response to such critics, Alex Voorhoeve examines its worth
Behaviorally designed training leads to more diverse hiring: a field experiment provides a promising proof of concept
No full textMany organizations have shown interest in increasing the diversity of their workforces for various reasons. Collectively, they have spent millions of dollars and countless employee hours on diversity training. Yet, there is little empirical evidence that such training increases diversity in organizations (1, 2). Diversity training may be ineffective because it is commonly implemented in ways that are not conducive to changing behavior: It takes place far in advance of consequential decisions and tends to be generic and not specific to the behaviors that organizations may want to affect (e.g., hiring). Results of our large-scale field experiment in a global telecommunications and engineering firm show that behaviorally designed diversity training can influence hiring decisions. This training increased the short-listing of women and nonnational applicants and increased the hiring of nonnational applicants relative to business as usual. This proof of concept demonstrates that new approaches to diversity training can deliver results
The politicization of police stops in Europe: public issues and police reform by Jacques de Maillard, Michael Rowe, and Kristof Verfaillie
No full textde Maillard Jacques, Rowe Michael, and Verfaillie Kristof (2024). The politicization of police stops in Europe: Public issues and police reform, Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland; 343 pp. (including index). ISBN: 978-3-031-35124-2, £109.99 (hardcover), £109.99 (softcover), £87.50 (eBook
Objectivity in interpretative sociology
No full textThis piece is part of a series of brief interventions based on a roundtable discussion held at the LSE Sociology departmental conference in November 2024. The conference organisers posed the question: Should sociology remain descriptive, or is engaging with normative questions essential to understand social life? The intention was to spark a conversation that would invite a shared reflection on one of sociology’s most enduring and urgent debates. Here, Monika Krause answers
The challenges of studying visual misinformation during election campaigns
No full textLSE’s Nick Anstead and Bart Cammaerts explain how they approached studying visual misinformation during elections in four countries – Belgium, France, the UK and the US – discussing both the challenges they encountered and the questions they are starting to answer based on their data