Naturalistic Values and Progressive Politics

Values, ideology and politics in ecological economics

Ecological economics is built on a value-commitment to study environmental issues and to contribute constructively to a more sustainable development path. However, many ecological economists still hesitate, it appears, to depart too much from other scholars by openly addressing issues of values and ideology. In this essay, the role of the scholar’s orientation with respect to values and ideolog...

Hate Crimes Laws: Progressive Politics or Balkanization?

Personality and Politics: Values, Traits, and Political Choice

Voters’ political choices have presumably come to depend more on their personal preferences and less on their social characteristics in Western democracies. We examine two aspects of personality that may influence political choice, traits and personal values, using the Five Factor Model of personality traits and the Schwartz (1992) theory of basic personal values. Data from 3044 voters for the ...

Plan B: Politics and values at the FDA, again.

tive that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved for prescription use in 1999. In 2003, a company called Barr Pharmaceuticals submitted to the FDA an application to switch Plan B from prescription to overthe-counter (OTC) status. At a joint meeting late that year, the FDA’s Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs recommended that the...

Introduction: Values, Power, and Politics in Digital Infrastructures

The papers presented in this mini-track explore themes of values, power, and politics in relation to the infrastructures that support digital data, documents, and interactions. The papers report empirical evidence of values, power, and politics in material properties, policy decisions and mechanisms of interoperability across a wide variety of infrastructures, including digital e-book repositor...