The equilibrium redistributive policy proposals of two parties with policy preferences is studied. Each party’s ideal policy coincides with that of citizens having a particular income level, and the party’s utility function reflects its attitude to the trade-off between choice of preferred policy and likelihood of victory. When parties face uncertainty about citizens’ abstention from voting, di...

BACKGROUND In view of the increasing number of senior citizens in our society who are likely to consult their GP with age-related health problems, it is important to identify and understand the preferences of this group in relation to the non-medical attributes of GP care. The aim of this study is to improve our understanding about preferences of this group of patients in relation to non-medica...

Online Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) are survey-like instruments that help citizens to shape their political preferences and compare them with those of political parties. Especially in multi-party democracies, their increasing popularity indicates that VAAs play an important role in opinion formation for citizens, as well as in the public debate prior to elections. Hence, the objectivity an...

In this paper, I trace social mechanisms for the development and continuation of citizens’ trust in e-voting. My research focuses on the processes that give rise to trust-related behavior, and identifies mechanisms that explain trust in e-voting. I distinguish between initial formation and recurrent manifestation of trust, and propose models of causal processes to explain them. I frame the rese...

Privacy is the right of individuals to determine for themselves when, how and to what extent information about them is communicated to others. Due to the rapid growth in popularity of web services, the complexity of their access control policies is also rising, thus, increasing the likelihood of inadvertent privacy disclosures. Anyone involved in e-business transactions would believe that it is...

Democratization is a learning process. When citizens in new democracies still consider democracy as economic tool instead of a principle, domestic economic fluctuation steers democratic legitimacy. However, why do citizens attribute economic performance to regime type rather than incumbent party? This article proposes that people would compare the performance of different regimes in the same er...

Increasingly governments around the world have realized the imperative of providing the public with not only improved government information and services but also improved public governance, transparency and accountability through eGovernment services. However, many governments still face the problem of low level adoption of eGovernment websites. It is because the issue of eGovernment adoption ...

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S INAUGURATION SPEECH DELIGHTED SCIENTISTS WHEN HE STATED, “WE WILL restore science to its rightful place.” But he went on: “What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility.... This is the price and the promise of citizenship.” For scientists, one oftenoverlooked responsibility is explaining their work to people. This is not an unreasonable price for receiving public f...

Cerebral Palsy, T.B., Epilepsy, deafness, and the physical handicaps of school children, are amongst the subjects dealt with; the present position in regard to them is reviewed and the "gaps' pointed out. Prevention rather than treatment is stressed, and how far we have to travel to attain the objective of a really adequate and comprehensive service which makes provision for both these things, ...