It has been observed that in single voting unanimity can rarely be reached. In many situations, however, members may not be aware that their preferences as expressed by their votes may contain room for compromise. This paper proposes a consensus-seeking methodology ± the Negotiable Alternatives Identi®er (NAI) ± that searches for such a compromise. Starting with individual cardinal preferences ...

The New Zealand government has been praised for heeding scientific advice in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but when it comes environmental protections seems be negotiable. Freshwaters have decline decades, despite clear science on limits needed protect them. There are many examples of ‘shifting baselines’, where progressively weakened through agency regulatory capture and political expedie...

We report the findings of a field study of the enactment of ICT supported knowledge work in a Human Resources contact centre, illustrating the negotiable boundary between what constitutes the developer and user. Drawing upon ideas from the social shaping of technology, we examine how discussions regarding producer-user relations require a degree of greater sophistication as we show how users de...

Jair Bolsonaro, the current President of Brazil, has made himself into one most influent advocates COVID-19 denial. His health policy and his political doctrine are partly based on an implicit moral claim, which is neglected by contemporary theory. Bolsonarism’s rhetoric raises a claim to freedom without responsibility, relieves its followers from burdens that emerge liberal accounts liberty or...

Abstract Since 95% of the Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) is down-cycled material value not effectively recovered, Dutch construction industry strives for implementing Circular Economy (CE). From recycling/reusing perspective, a key enabler towards CE Industrial Symbiosis (IS). Although IS has been widely applied in manufacturing industries, its implementation unclear industry. Particul...

This paper explores the building of administrative and democratic institutions of local government in newly emerging democracies in parts of the former Soviet Union and its satellite states in Eastern Europe. It covers the period through 2005. It studies the main objectives and achievements of the various reforms aimed at local government systems in Russia, Poland and Romania. The overall findi...

Efficient scheduling for potential negotiations that could be initiated among interacting business parties is crucial to satisfy the embedded time or budget constraints that parties might have. An efficient schedule should guarantee the maximum possible utility to all parties taking into account the correlations or inter-dependencies that exist among different negotiable entities. In this proje...