The Public and Social Research

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-48
Author(s):  
HERBERT E. KRUGMAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
The Public

Rooting Evaluation Guidelines in Relational Ethics: Lessons From Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-419
Author(s):  
Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa ◽  
Tara Polzer Ngwato
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Relational Ethics ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
The Public ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Ethical Clearance ◽  
Made In

As global discussions of evaluation standards become more contextually nuanced, culturally responsive conceptions of ethics have not been sufficiently discussed. In academic social research, ethical clearance processes have been designed to protect vulnerable people from harm related to participation in a research project. This article expands the ambit of ethical protection thinking and proposes a relational ethics approach for evaluation practitioners. This centers an analysis of power relations among and within all the different stakeholder groups in order to establish, in a context-specific manner, which stakeholders are vulnerable and in need of protection. The approach also contextualizes the nature of “the public good,” as part of an ethical consideration of interest trade-offs during evaluations. The discussion is informed by our experiences in African contexts and speaks to the “Made in Africa” research agenda but is also relevant to other global contexts where alternatives to “developed country” ontological assumptions about the roles of researchers and participations and the nature of vulnerability are being reconsidered.

Crowding Out in the UK within an Optimal Control Framework

1982 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Arestis ◽  
E. Karakitsos
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
Crowding Out ◽  
Macroeconomic Model ◽  
The Public ◽  
Control Framework ◽  
The Uk

ABSTRACTAn important issue in the discussion of fiscal policy is the contention that the public sector could expand only at the expense of the private sector, which must contract to provide the necessary room. This paper is concerned with ‘financial’ crowding out, which relates to the financing of public expenditure, rather than resource crowding out, which relates to the size of public expenditure. The paper attempts to determine empirically, using the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) macroeconomic model of the UK economy, whether fiscal actions under different modes of finance affect some strategic economic variables. The paper utilises techniques of optimal control, which are considered superior to simulation. The main conclusion of the paper is that there is no significant crowding out in the NIESR model; it is, nevertheless, important to distinguish between money-financed and bond-financed increases in government expenditure.

scholarly journals Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-168
Author(s):  
Antonios Broumas
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Peer Production ◽  
The Public ◽  
Common Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Moral Dimensions ◽  
Intellectual Commons

The intellectual commons exhibit propensities with a positive potential for society, bearing ethical substance but are in need of protection and advancement under the auspices of law. Theories of the intellectual commons provide substantial justifications for the promotion of commons-oriented institutions in contemporary societies. In this chapter the author details afresh the tendencies, manifestations and moral dimensions of the intellectual commons and how the social research in this book provides empirical evidence about the existence of distinct sequences and circuits of social value circulating. This leads directly to the justification of an Intellectual Commons Law. What might be the fundamentals of such a new body of law? The crucial first step, it is argued, would be the reconstitution of the public domain as a common space of sharing, collaboration, innovation, and freedom of expression through policies for its protection, expansion and enrichment. Secondly, a commons-oriented legal framework ought to unconditionally recognise and protect the creative practices within commons-based peer production and guarantee the characteristics of societal constitutionalism encountered in intellectual commons communities. Finally, commons-oriented legal institutions ought to introduce sets of extensive rights to access, work upon and transform information, knowledge and culture for non-commercial purposes. The chapter concludes with recommendations for future legal research focusing on particular fields within commons-oriented policymaking reimagining the commons-based elements already present within intellectual property law proposing their reconstruction in a novel and systematic way into an independent commons-oriented body of law.

scholarly journals A design-led framework for engaged research: Using a design approach to understand and place the public at the core of health and social care

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Mary Galvin ◽  
Avril Kennan ◽  
Éidín Ní Shé
Keyword(s):  
Health Research ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Umbrella Organisation ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Academic Partner ◽  
New Policies

Abstract This paper offers a multi-perspective approach on the role of engaged research in health and social care. Each of the authors focuses on their individual experiences of this domain, from the perspective of an academic partner of the Health Research Board’s PPI Ignite programme, a CEO of an umbrella organisation for health research charities and a researcher in design innovation, focusing on health research. The paper outlines the values which underpin public and patient involvement, as well as examples of its application as engaged research. It details how organisations like Health Research Charities Ireland support and enable engaged research within health and social research and policy. This paper offers a framework for facilitating dialogue and response across all stakeholders in the engaged research process, illustrating the importance of engaged research and how we can further our understanding and application of it within health and social care policy by adopting a design-led approach. We argue that a design-led approach can both facilitate engaged research as well as support policymakers in the design of new policies and practices.

scholarly journals Transformation of Public Administration Mechanisms: Experience of Uzbekistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 3110-3118
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Political Communications

Experts in the field of political research believe that computerization and the emergence of branched information systems require further improvement of the communication foundations of interaction between the subjects of the political process. This seems to be one of the strategic directions in the development of modern democracy. The growing interest in the field of political communications in social research is due to the fact that the development of political communications has significant potential for further democratization of socio-political institutions and processes in modern society. This article discusses the issues of transformation of the public administration system in Uzbekistan, the formation of effective mechanisms of "Electronic Government", the existing problems and prospects for the development of this sphere in Uzbekistan

scholarly journals Storytelling as a research tool and intervention around public health perceptions and behaviour: a protocol for a systematic narrative review

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. e030597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Becky McCall ◽  
Laura Shallcross ◽  
Michael Wilson ◽  
Christopher Fuller ◽  
Andrew Hayward
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
The Public ◽  
Study Results

IntroductionThere is a growing trend to use storytelling as a research tool to extract information and/or as an intervention to effect change in the public knowledge, attitudes and behaviour (KAB) in relation to public health issues, primarily those with a strong element of disease prevention. However, evidence of its use in either or both capacities is limited. This protocol proposes a systematic narrative review of peer-reviewed, published literature on the use of storytelling as a research tool within the public health arena.Methods and analysisMedline, EMBASE, PsycINFO, ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), Web of Science, Art and Humanities database (ProQuest), Scopus and Google Scholar will be searched for studies that look at the use of storytelling in the research of pressing current public health issues, for example, vaccinations, antimicrobial resistance, climate change and cancer screening. The review will synthesise evidence of how storytelling is used as a research tool to (a) gain insights into KAB and (b) to effect change in KAB when used as an intervention. Included studies will be selected according to carefully defined criteria relevant to public health issues of interest, and data from qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods studies will be extracted with a customised data extraction form. A narrative synthesis will be performed according to Economic and Social Research Council guidance from Popay, J, 2006.The study protocol follows the recommendations by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P).Ethics and disseminationFormal ethical approval is not required for this study, as no primary data will be collected. Dissemination will involve publishing results of this study in relevant peer-reviewed journal(s). Where possible, the study results will also be presented as posters or talks at relevant medical conferences and meetings.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42019124704

Are the “Randomistas” Evaluators?

2020 ◽  
pp. 256-279
Author(s):  
Robert Picciotto
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
Research Questions

In an article published in 2012 the author concluded that the surge of enthusiasm in randomization was bound to be short lived. But he had underestimated the public appeal of RCTs and their alignment with the evolving demands of a contemporary evaluation market dominated by vested interests. By now, it has become clear that the randomization bubble will not burst any time soon. Grounded in deep historical roots, favored by power-holders and considered uniquely rigorous by an ill-informed public, RCTs will continue to be commissioned even though they are severely constrained by statistical imperatives and ethical concerns, can only tackle narrow social research questions and are ineffective as tools of organization accountability and learning.

Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy of the 20th Century. By Christine E. Bose. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 257. $22.95, paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1146-1147
Author(s):  
Ann Harper Fender
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The Public ◽  
Temple University ◽  
Feminist Scholar ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The University ◽  
University Consortium

Economic historians have to respond favorably when sociologist–feminist scholar Christine Bose early in her text writes, “This book is intended to provide a historical perspective on contemporary issues that all too often are analyzed only in terms of the present” (p. 3). She returns frequently to this theme, stressing that female participation in the labor force began long before the late 1960s. Of course, numerous economic historians have noted that such participation began long before 1900 and their work, unsurprisingly, exhibits stronger understanding of historical economic conditions than does Women in 1900. Bose's intent, however, is not to study women throughout U.S. history; rather, she analyzes data on 29,673 women included in the Public Use Sample of the 1900 census to re-estimate female labor-force participation, and determine the effect of gender, race, ethnicity, and class on that participation. Her most valuable contribution comes through matching her sample observations with county economic data obtained through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. She uses these data to generate what she calls contextual variables, basically regional and urban or rural location of the sample respondent, and average female manufacturing wage and population characteristics of the respondent's county.

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