Judging Politics - A Temporal Perspective

The Role of the Prosecution in Judging the Criminal System from a Moral and Legal Perspective

Background: Judgment of a criminal policy Resolving criminal cases in various ways and manifestations, outside the scope of official repressive measures, is a strategy of contracting criminal law derived from civil law, and its main root is in ethics and morality. In society, and given that the prosecution of a criminal case is not the main purpose of criminal law; Rather, prosecution is seen a...

The politics of accuracy in judging global warming films

In 2007, two documentaries about global warming – An Inconvenient Truth and The Great Global Warming Swindle – became subject to legal and regulatory challenges in the UK. This paper examines the limitations of appeals to accuracy in these two cases. Rather than terminating debate, the discourse of accuracy engenders a representational regress which serves only to generate further controversy. ...

Understanding Japanese Politics from a Local Perspective

Judging Perspective: Making Sense of the 2010 Census

Temporal Perspective 1 Running Head: Temporal Perspective Regulatory Focus and Temporal Perspective

This research examined the link between regulatory focus (promotion versus prevention concerns) and shifts in perception with temporal proximity to a goal. We interpret previous research to have shown that promotion but not prevention focus decreases with goal proximity. In Study 1, students rated the importance of promotionand prevention-oriented concerns at two points in time: two weeks befor...