scholarly journals Self-Selection and Misreporting in Legislative Surveys

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 771-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirmin Bundi ◽  
Frédéric Varone ◽  
Roy Gava ◽  
Thomas Widmer
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Critical Problems ◽  
Survey Sample ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This article discusses the methodological challenges of legislative surveys. Following an overview of different types of survey biases, the article argues that self-selection and misreporting are the most critical problems for legislative surveys. In order to identify the self-selection and misreporting biases, we compare the answers with a survey from Swiss members of parliament with their observed behavior in the parliament. The empirical analysis shows that the survey sample has a substantial misreporting bias. We conclude that the parliamentarian’s attitude toward the survey object is strongly linked to their response. These issues should be addressed to improve the design and quality of legislative surveys.

Technology of optimization: An emerging configuration of productivity among professional software employees

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110302
Author(s):  
Vanessa Ciccone
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Software Industry ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Moral Ideals ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

In this article, I draw from several months of fieldwork from 2019 to assess professional subjectivity in the software industry of Canada. I assess employees’ constructions of and feelings about their own productivity. I argue that the ways in which subjects understand and feel about their productivity says a great deal about how power is ‘willfully’ negotiated within everyday professional tech settings of neoliberal societies. My findings suggest that optimization is emerging as a technology of self among the individuals I studied, and bringing political consequences. In the first section of the article, I provide a brief overview of the productivity imperative’s cultural trajectory, and show its relation to optimization. Then, in the empirical analysis and discussion, I outline that the technology of optimization involves a discourse around bringing one’s best to public and private realms, offering a specific set of moral ideals. I then show that another facet of this technology of self is centered on willfully entangling public and private life. Finally, I theorize subjects’ reported feelings about their own productivity, assessing how the technology of optimization relates to a politics of privilege. With this study, I seek to make a contribution to the relation between the culture of productivity and professional subjectivity in the software industry, in an effort to expose how power is negotiated at the level of the self in an increasingly influential sector.

scholarly journals Contribution of the analysis of technical efficiency to the improvement of the management of services

DYNA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 82 (191) ◽  
pp. 176-182
Author(s):  
David López-Berzosa ◽  
Carmen De Pablos-Heredero ◽  
Carlos Fernandez-Renedo
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Efficiency Measures ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Quality Indexes

The technical efficiency measures the ability that a system offers at maximizing the result restricted to budgetary restrictions. This article offers formal methods to quantify the technical efficiency in health systems and the influences of organizational structures and internal processes in the observed technical efficiency are also analyzed. The empirical analysis is focused on the quality of donation and transplant services. The results show a positive relationship between the levels related to quality indicators and the observed technical efficiency in the donation and transplant units of the 11 analyzed hospitals. This way it is possible to conclude that high levels in the quality indexes are a necessary condition to reach an increased level of the service offered.

scholarly journals Research on How to Integrate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education into Professional Education ---Based on Empirical Analysis of Administration Management Major in Six Colleges of Guangzhou

2021 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 03008
Author(s):  
Haiyan Ye ◽  
Qin Chen ◽  
Yaotang Chen ◽  
Yingzhi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Administrative Management ◽  
Innovation Ability ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

The combination of innovation and entrepreneurship education with administrative management can improve professional innovation ability and development thinking of students, and improve the quality of talent training. Based on the empirical analysis of six colleges in Conghua, Guangzhou, this paper analyzed the current problems in the integration of innovation and entrepreneurship education and administrative management in universities. Combined with survey and interview data and materials, this paper studied the relationship between innovation and entrepreneurship education and administrative management from the perspectives of students and teachers, summarized and classified the integrated characteristics of the surveyed colleges. It also proposed a four-in-one “1+4” integration circle of “teacher-company-university-society”, which centered on students, so as to escort the practice and guarantee of the two systems, and promote the high integration of innovation and entrepreneurship education and management majors in colleges.

scholarly journals The Comparative Analysis of Higher School Students’ Conflictological Culture On The Basis Of Their Left-/Right- Handedness

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Olga Shsherbakova ◽  
Anna Tatarinceva
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
European Council ◽  
School Students ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Integral Quality

<p><em>We face with different kinds of conflicts every day. The problem of the conflictological culture   of personality is urgent nowadays, because only a person with a highly developed level of the ability to avoid or successfully solve conflicts can succeed at work and in life-long learning. The European Council defined five key competences necessary for future specialists’ successful functioning in the contemporary society. The first place in this list was assigned for social competence as the ability to be responsible, able to take part in group decisions, avoid and resolve conflicts (The Symposium of the European Council. Brussels, 1996). The authors of the given research analyze the essence of the notions ”conflict”,  “conflictological culture”, as an integral quality of a person where the main stress is paid on its structural components’ content. They also  investigate different aspects of activities and psychophysiological development of left- and right-handedness of people. The empirical analysis conducted in the research presents the data obtained in the investigation  of the left- and right-handed students’ conflictological culture’s level. The Object of the research is the conflictological culture’s  level of students  at higher school. The Aim of the research is to investigate: 1) the essence of  the notions “ conflict”, “ conflictological  culture”, 2) the level of conflictological culture  of students of the 1<sup>st</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> courses at  higher school on the basis of their left-/right—handedness. The Methods of the research are the following:1. Theoretical methods:The theoretical analysis of scientific literature on the given problem.2.Quantitative methods: questionnaires.3.The empirical analysis of obtained data.</em></p><p> </p>

Export Upgrading and the Extent of Structural Change in Tax Revenue in Developing Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sèna Kimm Gnangnon
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Export Diversification ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This article examines the relevance of export-upgrading strategy (export quality improvement and export diversification) in developing countries for the structural change in tax revenue (trade tax revenue versus domestic tax revenue). The empirical analysis suggests that the lower the degree of export upgrading (higher export concentration or low quality of export products) the higher the extent of structural change in tax revenue, that is, a tax transition reform. In the meantime, the effect of export upgrading on the extent of structural change in tax revenue appears to be conditioned on the degree of countries’ openness to international trade. JEL Classification: H1, F14, O1

Informal taxes for the provision of public goods in Russian regions

2019 ◽  
pp. 124-134
Author(s):  
G. E. Besstremyannaya
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Local Public Goods ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Statistical Agency

The article studies the example of informal taxes in Russia — a phenomenon when citizens provide voluntary payments for financing local public goods. This so-called “self-taxation” has attracted attention in 2017 upon the adoption of the changes to the local government law, which simplified the procedure for local referendum. The article outlines institutional reasons for the emergence of this mechanism and its risks for Russia and other countries. The empirical analysis exploits the data by the Russian Statistical Agency and the Russian Treasury. Our results reveal a positive relationship between the coefficient of regional cofinancing of municipal projects and the growth in the share of voluntary payments in the non-tax revenues of local budgets. Therefore, self-taxation by citizens may be viewed as a signalling tool for enhancing the quality of local public goods.

Comparing Individuals with and without Mental Illness Using the Daily Activities Checklist

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catana Brown
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Mood Disorders ◽  
Self Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Care Community ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Living Skills

This study of the Daily Activities Checklist examined an aspect of construct validity, distinguishing differences between groups, specifically investigating differences in activity engagement in individuals with different types of mental illness (schizophrenia and mood disorders) and individuals without mental illness. The Daily Activities Checklist includes subscales of self-care, community living skills, socialization, and quality of performance. Individuals with schizophrenia (N=19), individuals with mood disorders (N=16), and individuals without mental illness (N=20) completed the Daily Activities Checklist every day for a one-week period. An ANCOVA with age as a covariate was used to examine differences in scores across the three groups. Individuals with mental illness scored lower than individuals without mental illness on the total score and all but one subscale of the Daily Activities Checklist. There was no difference between individuals with schizophrenia and individuals without mental illness on the quality subscale scores. Individuals with schizophrenia scored lower than individuals with mood disorders on the self-care subscale and the total score. These results support the usefulness of the Daily Activities Checklist in evaluating engagement in daily activities.

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