Underrepresented Groups and Constitution-Making: The Mexico City Case

2020 ◽  
pp. 147892992094482
Author(s):  
Ernesto Cruz Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Symposium Paper ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Constitution Making

Citizen calls and opportunities for more inclusion in democratic processes are on the rise, triggering the creation of innovative mechanisms to include more demands and stakeholders in decision-making. This article shows how political determination opened up the 2016 Constitution-making of Mexico City and examines the extent to which technology helped add and manage citizen inputs to their constitution. Empirically, it shows the stages and stakeholder deliberations and how collaborative writing, online petitions, and extensive surveys facilitated the inclusion of otherwise underrepresented groups’ agendas in a constitutional text. In general, the central argument of this symposium paper is that the combination of actor decisions and use of technology contribute positively to crafting participative, inclusive and informed constitutions.

U.S. Regulatory Approaches: A Critical Appraisal

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
R. L. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Regulatory System ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Treatment Technologies ◽  
New Treatment ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

The American approach to environmental regulation is characterized by fragmentation of responsibilities, primary reliance on command and control regulations, extraordinary complexity, a preference for identifiable standards, and heavy resort to litigation. This system has provided important benefits, including significant reduction of environmental contamination, substantial use of science in decision-making, broad participatory rights, and the stimulation of new treatment technologies. However, these gains have been achieved at excessive cost. Too much reliance is placed on command and control methods and especially on technology-based standards. There is too much resort to litigation, and inadequate input from science. Participatory rights are being undermined, and there is a poor allocation of decision-making among the federal agencies and the states. Over-regulation sometimes leads to under-regulation, and insufficient attention is given to the impact on small entities. The responsibility for these difficulties rests with everyone, including the federal agencies, the Congress, the general public and the courts. Changes in the regulatory system are needed. We should abandon the use of technology-based standards to control toxic substances under the Clean Water Act in favor of strong health- and environmentally based standards, coupled with taxes on toxic substances in wastewater.

Investment Management and the Investment Chain

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane-Laure Arjaliès ◽  
Philip Grant ◽  
Iain Hardie ◽  
Donald MacKenzie ◽  
Ekaterina Svetlova
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Investment Management ◽  
Money Flows ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Asset Managers

Chapter 1 introduces the idea of the chain as related to investment management. It highlights the increasing importance and influence of the asset management industry and argues that, despite this fact, the behaviour and decision-making of asset managers has been little studied. The chapter suggests that investment decisions today cannot be understood by focusing on isolated investors. Rather, most of their money flows through a chain: a sequence of intermediaries that ‘sit between’ savers and companies/governments. The chapter introduces the central argument of the book that investment management is shaped profoundly by the opportunities and constraints that this chain creates.

scholarly journals Internationalization of SMEs and Effectuation: The Way Back and Forward

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (24) ◽  
pp. 1422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamza El Guili ◽  
Driss Ferhane
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Entrepreneurial Behavior ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Theoretical Paper ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Creation ◽  
To Come

Business growth is considered as one of the main topics of entrepreneurship research. Due to the increased interest on entrepreneurship, new theoretical perspectives have emerged to explain entrepreneurial behavior. One of these emergent theories is effectuation. It is widely known that entrepreneurs and owner-managers count on different decision-making logics during the internationalization of their ventures, including causal and effectual reasoning. Despite that the use of effectual reasoning has been generally linked to the early stages of the creation of a venture; it has recently been introduced to on the internationalization of SMEs research. Introduced by Sarasvathy (2001), effectuation logic is stated to grow in an unstable operating context where it is complicated to predict and in contrast, it is likely to unexpectedly respond to changes in the environment. Furthermore, it represents a typical shift in approaching entrepreneurship. In this theoretical paper, we first aim to highlight the evolution of the concept and the development of the effectuation theory within the literature. Furthermore, we explain the similarities and differences existing between causation and effectuation reasoning. Finally, we use the lens of effectuation to come up with an understanding of the internationalization of SMEs.

scholarly journals The creation of a training model to support decision-making of emergency management practitioners: a design research study

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (sup1) ◽  
pp. 558-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora McCarthy ◽  
Karen Neville ◽  
Andrew Pope ◽  
Anthony Gallagher ◽  
Alexander Nussbaumer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Training Model ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Support Decision Making

Sharing is caring: the role of voter-candidate similarities in intra-party electoral competition

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick F. A. van Erkel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Electoral Competition ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
Candidate Characteristics

AbstractPrevious studies have found similarities with presidential candidates or party leaders to be an important factor in explaining voting behaviour. However, with the exception of gender, few studies have structurally studied voter-candidate similarities in intra-party electoral competition. This study investigates the Belgian case and argues that voter-candidate similarities play a role in the decision-making process of citizens when casting preferential votes. Moreover, it investigates whether underrepresented groups, and especially women, are more guided by these voter-candidate similarities than overrepresented groups. To achieve this aim voter and candidate characteristics are modelled simultaneously. This enables an investigation of the decision-making process of voters while taking into account structural inequalities at the supply side. The results demonstrate that citizens are indeed more likely to cast preferential votes for candidates similar to themselves and that these effects are stronger for underrepresented groups. Hence, preferential voting could ultimately pave the way for better descriptive representation.

scholarly journals The adoption of an indicator panel in educational management to decision-making support

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 266-290
Author(s):  
Miguel Fabrício Zamberlan ◽  
Carolina Yukari Veludo Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Support System ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Paraconsistent Logic ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Adoption Of Technology ◽  
Utaut Model ◽  
Use Of Technology

The use of technology to assist in the performance of daily activities and to carry out communication between individuals has become a necessary task in the face of technological advances. In the context of public institutions, the insertion of technology is also based on the possibilities of making the activities of this sector more efficient and better quality, in addition to allowing greater transparency and accessibility of information for society. For public managers, the information and communication technology tools allow for a more accurate assessment of the variables and possibilities involved in a decision-making process and, thus, to make better decisions in a sector whose main customer is society (users). Therefore, this paper aimed to analyze the use and acceptance of a decision support tool in a public educational institution called the Indicators Panel. For this, the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) was used, and the results were measured using the paraconsistent logic. The results indicate that it is possible to consider the use and acceptance of the decision support system in the public educational institution by reducing the propositions of the UTAUT Model in three factors: Usability, Performance, and Relationship. Regarding the UTAUT Model, it was found that the moderating variables of gender, age, and experience do not significantly influence the adoption of the decision support system. It is important to note that managers point the tool as very important for the development of their activities and emphasize that ease of use is one of the main points for the adoption of technology.

scholarly journals Computational Gastronomy - Use of Computing Methods in Culinary Creativity

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Durga Prasad Shukla ◽  
Pawan Ailawadi
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Computing Methods ◽  
Cooking Methods ◽  
Food Ingredient ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Food Network ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Computational Gastronomy

Nowadays in culinary practices there is a great variety of regional cuisine in line with the cultural diversity of a place. This raises the question of whether there is a common pattern in determining the combination of food ingredients or the same principles in making recipes and producing certain tastes. For example, Western cuisine tends to use ingredients that have many flavor compounds, while East Asian cuisine tends to avoid ingredients sharing compounds. This study is driven by the results of previous studies showing the science of gastronomy is developing and producing the domain of computational gastronomy which contributes to the creation of recipes in innovative and creative ways. The purpose of this study is to understand the use of computational gastranomy in diverse food network in culinary creativity. The research design is exploring and looking for relationships between various aspects of food such as taste, aroma, seasoning, food ingredient, texture, and cooking methods. Cross sectional and longitudinal research are also carried out to find a causal relationship between computational gastronomy and culinary creation. The results showed that there was a relationship between various aspects, namely computational gastronomy, culinary creations, food content, and the use of technology in creating food recipes. The application of computational creativity in the culinary field can increase business value in the hotel kitchen area, the creation of recipes and food science.

scholarly journals Alternative Materials and Methodology in Contemporary Design

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
Anita Darabos ◽  
Judit Szalai
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
New Products ◽  
Natural Materials ◽  
Ecological Requirements ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Alternative Materials ◽  
Environmental Considerations ◽  
The Creation

Abstract Nowadays, concerns related to mankind’s increasing and destructive impact on the environment have influenced and changed the paradigms of product development; this in turn has brought about the appearance of environmental considerations in the creation and design of new products. Numerous industrial sectors have changed their processes of product development and production to meet the ecological requirements. Issues such as the scarcity of natural resources, increasing consumption and increasing pollution also present a number of problems. This article presents a process of comparing new alternatives with a specific methodology of decision-making. It is primarily focused on the use of rare natural materials and resources that are extracted and processed.

scholarly journals Upaya Peningkatan Daya Tarik Wisata di Kabupaten Sumenep melalui Smart City System

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-43
Author(s):  
Nur Inna Alfiyah
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Research Use ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
City System ◽  
Tourism Information ◽  
Tourist Information ◽  
Government Innovation

Abstract This research aims to explain the efforts by local government to increase tourist attraction in Sumenep Regency, through the realization of smart city as a government innovation in providing tourist information to public. This research use descriptive explanatory method by looking at the obstacles in tourism development in Sumenep, which were then followed by decision-making actions carried out by the local government, so the smart city masterplan was born as a government program. The masterplan program then gave birth to innovations in the use of technology to make it easier for tourists to find out tourism information in Sumenep Regency. Keyword : Tourism, Decision making, Smart city Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan upaya peningkatan daya tarik wisata di Kabupaten Sumenep melalui realisasi smart city sebagai inovasi pemerintah dalam memberikan informasi wisata kepada masyarakat. Metode dalam penelitian ini menggunakan deskriptif eksplanatif dengan melihat terlebih dahulu kendala-kendala dalam pengembangan wisata di Sumenep yang kemudian disusul dengan tindakan pengambilan keputusan yang dilakukan oleh pemerintah daerah, sehingga kemudian lahirlah masterplan smart city sebagai program pemerintah. Program masterplan ini kemudian melahirkan inovasi-inovasi penggunaan teknologi guna memudahkan wisatawan untuk mengetahui informasi wisata yang ada di Kabupaten Sumenep. Kata Kunci: Pariwisata, Pengambilan keputusan, Smart city

The Free Software Paradigm and the Hacker Ethic

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Stallman ◽  
Adolfo Plasencia
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Free Software ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Implementation Framework ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Software Code ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

This dialogue is preceded by an introduction about Richard Stallman and the power of “code”, by Lawrence Lessing, as well as a detailed biography of Richard revised by himself. In the conversation following this, Stallman analyzes the origin and validity of the ‘hacking’ and ‘hack’ concepts and the differences between ‘hackers’ and ‘crackers’. He then describes in detail the concept, dimension, forms of creation and the development of software code, especially free software and its implementation framework. He later reflects on and outlines his vision of the relationship between the use of technology and ethics, and about ethical hackers. He also talks about the good and bad behavior of companies and, in this context, his criticism of Corporatocracy. Afterward, he describes concepts about how the creation of software code works compared with other creative arts, such as literature. He goes on to analyze the mechanisms for how ideas are patented in the industrial world, in particular the case of software development. He finally talks about why his vision of free software remains valid and how it should be dealt with during education.

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