The Right to Research: Engaging a Psychological Science for the Public Good

Citizenship includes elements of identity, participation, rights, obligations, and acceptance of shared social values. Aristotle, the ancient Greek thinker states that citizenship is a form of citizen participation in public life. Good citizens are those engaged in public life better while being ruled and governed. Citizenship can not be separated from the concept of the constitution. Determining who is a citizen based on the state constitution. There is a "Wrong Constitutions", which includes Tirany, Oligarchy and Democracy and the "Right Constitutions", covers Kingship, Aristocracy and Polity or Constitutional Government. The Constitution is important for a country as long as it is intended for the public good and reach a sense of justice.

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The Antigovernment Impulse

The President and American Capitalism Since 1945 ◽

10.5744/florida/9780813056524.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Brent Cebul

Keyword(s):

Public Good ◽

Civic Virtue ◽

Presidential Candidates ◽

The Public ◽

Social Goods ◽

The Government ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Right

Presidential candidates on both the left and the right have, since the 1960s, criticized the government for its size, overreach, and inefficiency. Once elected, these presidents made few changes and continued delivering the programs and social goods Americans demanded. Such actions devalued civic virtue, sacrifice, and the public good, which decreased the likelihood of finding collective solutions to problems affecting the entire polity.

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Can psychological science serve the public good?

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e512912013-002 ◽

2013 ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Good ◽

The Public ◽

Psychological Science

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Advocacy and licensing: Essential tools for professional foresters' associations — Case study of the Ordre des ingénieurs forestiers du Québec

The Forestry Chronicle ◽

10.5558/tfc73233-2 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 73 (2) ◽

pp. 233-240

Author(s):

G. W. Crook

Keyword(s):

Public Good ◽

Professional Practice ◽

Public Interest ◽

Code Of Ethics ◽

Leadership Role ◽

The Public ◽

Speaking Out ◽

The Right ◽

Professional Foresters

The Ordre des ingénieurs forestiers du Québec has for 75 years played a key role in building the public's awareness of forests and of the practice of professional forestry, and in safeguarding the public interest in the resource. Two primary drivers are behind the organization's success : a long-standing advocacy policy and licensing. As a professional association that has been given the right to exclusive practice, it is legally bound to place as its highest priority the protection of the public good. This necessitates an inspection, discipline, and continuing education program for its members to ensure their competency. Also, the Order has the mandate of ensuring that foresters are not impeded in their professional practice. Its advocacy and communications mandate is closely linked to its role, specified in its Code of Ethics, to protect the public by speaking out on forestry-related issues. The Order has thus been able to rise above partisan issues and base its position statements and policies on the reservoir of expertise that it collectively represents. The result has been the promotion of professional forestry for the public good, and the Order taking a leadership role as the conscience of forestry in Quebec.

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The First Investor-State Arbitration: The Suez Canal Company v Egypt (1864)

The Journal of World Investment & Trade ◽

10.1163/22119000-01703003 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 401-462

Author(s):

Jason Webb Yackee

Keyword(s):

Public Good ◽

Historical Record ◽

Suez Canal ◽

Forced Labor ◽

The Public ◽

The Government ◽

The Right ◽

Significant Support

This article provides an in-depth examination of the earliest investor-state arbitration appearing in the historical record—the 1864 arbitration between the Suez Canal Company and Egypt. The arbitration is fascinating because the Company’s claim of mistreatment has a strikingly modern character: under what circumstances, and with what consequences, can the government of the day change its laws in order to promote its conception of the public good, where the change negatively impacts the value of the foreigner’s investments? Egypt demanded the right to eliminate the forced labor regime upon which the canal project’s finances depended; the Company demanded compensation. The arbitral commission’s solution, based essentially on a principle of sanctity of contract, is one that finds significant support in modern jurisprudence. Citing ‘the contract’ is, and long has been, a powerful rhetorical and legal weapon for the aggrieved investor.

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Eminent Domain: The Perpetual Rights of the Indigenous People of Kenya to Land Ownership

Strathmore Law Review ◽

10.52907/slr.v2i1.92 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 21-37

Author(s):

Mitchel Ondili

Keyword(s):

Public Good ◽

Indigenous People ◽

Land Ownership ◽

Eminent Domain ◽

The Public ◽

The Core ◽

Unique Nature ◽

The Government ◽

The Right

The power of eminent domain, a facet of the powers vested in the Government of Kenya, is ideally a tool for conservation of the environment and the advancement of the public good. Unfortunately, this power has been abused over the years, and become a gateway for unscrupulous regimes to appropriate land. Consequently, the core right of indigenous people—the right to ownership of property, specifically land—has been violated and usurped time and time again to the end of eminent domain. Due to the unique nature of indigenous people and their identity, the power of eminent domain should be suspended from the prerogative of the Government for the sake of their protection and continuity.

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Replications can cause distorted belief in scientific progress

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x18000584 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Michał Białek

Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

Scientific Progress ◽

The Public ◽

Psychological Science

AbstractIf we want psychological science to have a meaningful real-world impact, it has to be trusted by the public. Scientific progress is noisy; accordingly, replications sometimes fail even for true findings. We need to communicate the acceptability of uncertainty to the public and our peers, to prevent psychology from being perceived as having nothing to say about reality.

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