Religious Convictions and Lawmaking

Moral and Religious Convictions and Intentions to Vote in the 2008 Presidential Election

The current research investigated whether people’s issue-specific moral and religious convictions had distinct or redundant effects on their intentions to vote in the 2008 presidential election. Participants reported their levels of moral and religious conviction about the issue that they perceived as most important to the 2008 presidential election and their intentions to vote. Results indicat...

Limits on legitimacy: moral and religious convictions as constraints on deference to authority.

Various versions of legitimacy theory predict that a duty and obligation to obey legitimate authorities generally trumps people's personal moral and religious values. However, most research has assumed rather than measured the degree to which people have a moral or religious stake in the situations studied. This study tested compliance with and reactions to legitimate authorities in the context...

Lawmaking 2.0

A crowdsourcing idea campaign aiming at evaluating and editing a draft for the new Law on Education was run in Russia in May August 2010. We developed an original crowdsourcing platform and organized collaboration of more than 500 participants. 95 original versions of the Law items were created. 23 of them were approved by the community and graduated. The mechanism proved to be effective as a t...

Traditional Knowledge and Global Lawmaking

Domestic Violence Lawmaking in Asia: Some Innovative Trends in Feminist Lawmaking

Domestic violence lawmaking intersects global human rights norms and domestic women's movements. Domestic violence is both a global and local phenomenon. The World Bank argues that domestic violence accounts for one in five lost years in women aged 15-44. The costs range from direct expenses such as medical care and social services to productivity and labor market costs to the psychological tol...