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Fairness, Justice And An Individual Basis For Public Policy, Douglas R. Oxley
Fairness, Justice And An Individual Basis For Public Policy, Douglas R. Oxley
Department of Political Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Prior models of the policy process have examined how human characteristics can affect policy decision-making in such a way that it leads to aggregate effects on policy outcomes as a whole. I develop a model of the policy process which suggests that emotions related to fair and unfair experiences in the same policy domain are utilized by decision-makers as policy criteria. In the lab, I empirically tested this, and find that emotions and experience related to fairness do influence the policy decision to move away from the status quo alternative. Based upon this result, I simulated the evolution of a …