scholarly journals Electoral finance reform in New Zealand: a need for a conceptual framework

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alec Mladenovic

Democracies include arrangements which facilitate collective or social decision making in the formal public arena (Cohen, 2001, p.49; Geddis, 2003, p.53).1 These arrangements, established and supported by legal systems, comprise various ‘institutions, practices, and procedures’ (Geddis, 2003, p.53). They include voting rights, rules for the organisation of elections (voter eligibility, electoral or representation systems, electoral finance) and the framework for decision making by the legislature and executive (Cohen, 2001, p.49). 

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Handgraaf ◽  
Eric van Dijk ◽  
Riël C. Vermunt ◽  
Henk Wilke ◽  
Carsten K. W. De Dreu

Author(s):  
Xinmu Hu ◽  
Xiaoqin Mai

Abstract Social value orientation (SVO) characterizes stable individual differences by an inherent sense of fairness in outcome allocations. Using the event-related potential (ERP), this study investigated differences in fairness decision-making behavior and neural bases between individuals with prosocial and proself orientations using the Ultimatum Game (UG). Behavioral results indicated that prosocials were more prone to rejecting unfair offers with stronger negative emotional reactions compared with proselfs. ERP results revealed that prosocials showed a larger P2 when receiving fair offers than unfair ones in a very early processing stage, whereas such effect was absent in proselfs. In later processing stages, although both groups were sensitive to fairness as reflected by an enhanced medial frontal negativity (MFN) for unfair offers and a larger P3 for fair offers, prosocials exhibited a stronger fairness effect on these ERP components relative to proselfs. Furthermore, the fairness effect on the MFN mediated the SVO effect on rejecting unfair offers. Findings regarding emotional experiences, behavioral patterns, and ERPs provide compelling evidence that SVO modulates fairness processing in social decision-making, whereas differences in neural responses to unfair vs. fair offers as evidenced by the MFN appear to play important roles in the SVO effect on behavioral responses to unfairness.


1986 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 500-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia-chen Chao ◽  
George P. Knight ◽  
Alan F. Dubro

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 3072-3085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Bitsch ◽  
Philipp Berger ◽  
Arne Nagels ◽  
Irina Falkenberg ◽  
Benjamin Straube

Author(s):  
Granville Bud Potter ◽  
John C. Gibbs ◽  
Molly Robbins ◽  
Peter E. Langdon

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