Is the Solution More Democracy?

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-67
Author(s):  
Jason Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Real ◽  
Democratic Systems ◽  
The Right ◽  
Large Groups ◽  
Wisdom Of The Crowds

Philosophers often try to “solve” democracy’s problems by arguing we need more and better democracy. They tend to think certain kinds of democratic systems could unleash the hidden “wisdom of the crowds.” Some defenders of democracy propose deliberative democracy and some extol the reliability of large groups. However, both ideas have limitations in the real world. This chapter objects to such arguments as they rely upon mistaken applications of certain mathematical theorems, or they end up retreating toward unrealistic ideals of how people ought to behave. In effect, they say that democracy would be wonderful if only people behaved the right way.

scholarly journals Linking academia and the ‘real world’ in International Relations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Cottey ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Real World ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
The Real ◽  
Work Placement ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

This talk will reflect on the challenges of linking academic programmes and teaching, on the one hand, with the policy-makers and practitioners, on the other, with particular reference to the discipline of international relations (which focuses on relations between states, international organisations and global political and socio-economic dynamics). The talk will draw on experience from University College Cork’s Department of Government and Politics, which has an extensive, market-leading work placement programme, and from UCC’s MSc International Public Policy and Diplomacy, which is a new model of international relations masters seeking to bridge academia and the world of policy. Our experience shows that it is possible to link academia and the world of policy and practitioners, but that it is not easy, even in an apparently very policy-oriented discipline, and that it involves significant challenges. The talk will highlight a number of challenges involved in linking the academic study of international relations with the ‘real world’ of international politics: bridging academia and policy/practitioners is not easy in the disciplines of political science and international relations – the two have different needs and, often, different languages; the development and maintenance of work placements and other elements of engagement with policymakers and practitioners involves very significant workload and needs to be properly supported in terms of staffing and infrastructure; and in politics and international relations, the skill sets which policy-makers and practitioners need often differ from those that universities normally provide. Finding the ‘right’ balance between academic disciplinary requirements/standards and the needs of employers is a difficult task.

scholarly journals Agro-preneurial obstacles among students in the Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology, UiTM Pahang

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilyani Azer ◽  
Siti Aishah Mohamad ◽  
Nur Suraya Abdullah ◽  
Musramaini Mustapha
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
The Real ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The Right

Most tertiary institutions offer entrepreneurial programmes and courses to the students. However, there appears to be a lot of challenges in maintaining the elements of business in the real world. This study highlights the obstacles in entrepreneurship among students from the Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology, Univeristi Teknologu MARA (UiTM) Pahang. The main objective is to explore the perceptions toward the obstacles in agro-preneurship among the respondents. The results pointed out that the students’ perceptions of lack of experience, finding the right partner, and lack of information are the main three obstacles in agro-preneurship. In addition, specific obstacles in agro-preneurship exist based on the student’s gender which is caused by different obstacles.

Apt Imaginings

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gilmore
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Real World ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
States Of Affairs ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ideal State ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Right

Do people’s responses to works of art track their responses to the real world? Specifically, do emotions, cognitions, and desires elicited by fictional stories and visual imaginings differ—in their constitution or the norms that govern them—from those based on beliefs and perceptions? A commitment to one or another answer to this question animates reflection on the nature of art from Plato’s banishment of dramatic poetry from his ideal state to theories in cognitive science of the role of imagination in our mental life. This book defends a thesis of normative discontinuity: although the doxastic representations, emotions, desires, and evaluations that one forms in engaging with a fiction depend on much of the same psychological and neurophysiological machinery one employs in navigating the real world, the norms that govern the appropriateness of those attitudes toward what is fictional or imagined can be contrary to the norms that govern their fit to analogous things in the real world. In short, this book argues that the functions of art ground, on occasion, a kind of autonomy of the imagination: what would be the wrong way to feel or think about states of affairs in the real world could be the right way to feel or think when those states of affairs are only make-believe.

Civil Society and Freedom of Association

2020 ◽  
pp. 88-118
Author(s):  
Kevin Vallier
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Real World ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
The Real ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
The Right ◽  
Public Evidence

A right to freedom of association can both be justified to a diverse public, and exercises of that right help create and sustain social and political trust in the real world. Freedom of association can be justified to multiple points of view, both liberal and illiberal, to protect the pursuit of diverse forms of life. It creates real trust by putting people in contact with other members and with nonmembers. It creates trust for the right reasons because the recognition, protection, and exercise of the right of association serve as public evidence of the trustworthiness of association members and governments that recognize and respect and protect the rights of associations members. Since freedom of association creates trust for the right reasons, it can help arrest falling trust and increasing polarization.

scholarly journals Dilemmas of an Economic Theorist

2008 ◽  
pp. 62-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ar. Rubinstein
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Right

The paper discusses four dilemmas encountered by an economic theorist. The dilemma of absurd conclusions: should we abandon a model if it produces absurd conclusions or should we regard a model as a very limited set of assumptions that will inevitably fail in some contexts? The dilemma of responding to evidence: should our models be judged according to experimental results? The dilemma of modelless regularities: should models provide the hypothesis for testing or are they simply exercises in logic that have no use in identifying regularities? The dilemma of relevance: do economists have the right to offer advice or to make statements that are intended to influence the real world?

scholarly journals WHATSAPP (WA) DAN KONSEP JARAK SOSIAL BARU DI MASYARAKAT

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Afina Amna
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
The Real ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Right ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Do So

<p>Abstract. Whatsapp (WA) as a new social media changes people's communication in cyberspace. Communication that initially can only be done in the real world, develops with the existence of cyberspace that makes communication can be done without having to meet, and can be done quickly and can be felt as if real. For this reason, this study aims to find out how public communication is before there is WA and after there is WA? Does WA change the concept of social distance for society? This research is important to do so that we know how WA as an active and massive communication media used by the community can change the concept of new social distance in society. The method used is qualitative data collection through interviews with several WA users. This interview was conducted by random sampling method with the selection of informants randomly. The theory used in this study is the theory of social distance. This study found that WA changed communication in cyberspace and WA also changed the concept of new social distance because after massive WA groups were used, people were free to disseminate information and had the right to comment without fear of social distance in the real world. People can also more easily realize their sympathies because groups in WA make it easier for them to carry out information and coordination to be able to carry out activities that show sympathy for others.</p><p><br />Keywords: Communication, Whatsapp, Social Distance</p>

Crime, Protection, and Compassion

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-102
Author(s):  
Derk Pereboom
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Self ◽  
General Deterrence ◽  
The Real ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
The Right ◽  
Special Deterrence

Chapter 4 sets out a theory for treatment of criminals that rejects the retributive justification for punishment, does not fall afoul of a plausible prohibition on using people merely as means, and can actually work in the real world. The proposal is largely justified as special deterrence by the right to self-defense and defense of others. This account features a quarantine analogy for a justification of the incapacitation of criminals, for example by preventative detention or monitoring, together with provisions for rehabilitation and reintegration. It also features a justification for penalties designed to secure effective general deterrence, measures that cannot be justified as special deterrence by the self-defense right. Here consequentialist considerations and duties of compensation have a justificatory role.

An analysis of QoS ranking prediction framework techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (01) ◽  
pp. 1850420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harsimran Kaur ◽  
Anurag Rai ◽  
Sarvjit Singh Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Cloud Service Provider ◽  
The Real ◽  
Functional Activities ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Right ◽  
Demand Service

In the real world, building the high quality cloud computing framework is the challenge for the researcher in the present scenario where on demand service is required. The services which are performing the non-functional activities are referred to as Quality-of Service (QoS). The experience of real-world usage services are generally required to obtain the QoS. Many organizations offer various cloud services, such as Amazon, HP and IBM, to the customers. No technique is available to measure the real-world usage and estimate the ranking of the cloud services. From the customer side, it is a very tough job to choose the right cloud service provider (SP), which fulfills all the requirements of the customers. To avoid the confusion to select the right CSP, this paper proposes QoS ranking prediction methods such as Cloud Rank1, Cloud Rank2 and Cloud Rank3. Various experiments are done on the real-world QoS data by using EC2 services of Amazon and providing healthy results and solutions.

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