Parliament needs members who are scientifically literate

Use of ICT by Members of Parliament

Scientifically literate action: key barriers and facilitators across context and content.

Scientific literacy can also be described as a level of public understanding of science that encourages one to act in concert with scientific consensus. Investigating actions concerned with environmental conservation, we examine the context specificity of this form of scientifically literate action and the differential motivations that predict such action across contexts. We report on a large s...

Anchoring Science Education Towards Scientifically Literate Malaysian Society: An Exploration of Children’s Affective Psyche

Objectives and Significance of Study This paper takes as it starting point the document Vision 2020, inspired by the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, and examines the way in which the science curriculum might make a material contribution to the future Malaysian society. In particular, it argues that the science curriculum is in a unique position to take up the challenge of “establishing a sci...

Criminogenic needs in offenders who are eligible for behavioural interventions

The Reducing Recidivism policy programme [beleidsprogramma ‘Terugdringen Recidive (TR)], which was launched in 2002, was intended to reduce recidivism amongst adult offenders. To achieve this, the programme introduced an integrated approach in which various methods are used to reduce recidivism: an evidencebased risk and needs assessment tool (RISc), behavioural interventions that comply with c...

The Politicians’ Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament

The Politicians’ Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians’ wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG which is statistically and economic...