Meaningful Participation in Transnational Teams

Virtual Transnational Teams and Their Use of Advanced Information Technology

Defining meaningful participation of developing countries in climate change mitigation

The benefits from reducing GHG emissions are not limited to a single consumer or group of consumers but are available to a large set of countries and populations across generations. Underprovision and free-riding are thus to be expected in the climate change issue. Optimal provision of this type of public good requires creating incentives for international cooperation. Game theorists have propo...

Meaningful Participation? Political Efficacy of Adolescents in 24 countries

This 24-nation European–US study (1999–2000) of the democratic political values, attitudes, and behavior of adolescents uncovers a generally high level of self-predicted future political participation as adults. Four of five14-year-olds regard themselves as future voters, and 61% predict involvement in protest activities. Moreover, law breaking as an act of protest is almost as attractive in th...

Distributed Teams, Developer Participation, and More

IN THIS ISSUE, we report on two talks from the First International Workshop on Collaborative Modeling in MDE (model-driven engineering) and three papers from the 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering. Feedback and suggestions are welcome. In addition, if you try or adopt any of the practices mentioned in the column, please send Jeffrey Carver and the p...

Beyond tokenistic participation: using representational artefacts to enable meaningful public participation in health service design.

A number of recent policies promote public participation in health service design. Yet, a growing literature has articulated a gap between policy aims and actual practice resulting in public participation becoming tokenistic. Drawing on theory from participatory design, we argue that choosing appropriate artefacts to act as representations can structure discussions between public participants a...