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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Deservingness"”.
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Reactions to Others with Depression: An Investigation of Responsibility and Deservingness Judgments
<p>Judgments of responsibility and deservingness are two cognitive appraisals that independently predict other-directed moral emotions and helping judgments. The current research integrated theories of responsibility and deservingness to investigate a novel approach for increasing support to …
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Welfare Deservingness Perceptions of Single Mothers in Hungary: Institutional Design, Government Discourse, and Public Attitudes
The literature on single mothers’ welfare deservingness is dominated by analyses carried out in Anglo-Saxon countries. In these countries, politicians gained social legitimacy for the cut-back of single mothers’ benefits by framing them as immoral and lazy welfare recipients. In contrast, this …
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Needles in a Haystack: Perceptions of Deservingness on the Implementation of Harm Reduction Programs in the American Midwest
The association of opioid abuse with rural, white, working-class individuals ultimately generated sympathy, rather than hatred, in the general political zeitgeist. However, some cases deviated from this pattern by adhering to the common cycle and villainizing individuals with substance use disorder …
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Essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics
… dictator game where information about receiver’s deservingness is endogenously determined by the receiver’s decision to disclose information. I therefore explore whether receivers voluntarily provide information about their deservingness and the effect of endogenous information on dictators’ …
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A welfare deservingness approach to the COVID-19 grant: an exploration of the social and economic experiences of unemployed youth in South Africa
… objective of this study was to use a welfare deservingness approach to the COVID-19 grant to explore the social and economic experiences of unemployed youth in South Africa. This study used an explorative qualitative research design to gain insight into the attitudes and perceptions that …
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Provocation, intent and harm: factors affecting public support for restorative justice processes
… interactions among the predictors on perceived deservingness of respectful treatment of the offender, perceived deservingness did not predict participants’ choice of restorative justice versus court for deciding the offence. The implications of public support for restorative justice procedures …
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The language of urban poverty : institutional action, perception, and lived experience within Batu and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
… by re-enforcing classist systems, notions of deservingness, ethnic and social stigmas, and the attribution of blame. While urban poverty and the urban poor are not inherent in policy and State, the individual urban poor occupy an uncomfortable but central position within the minds of the …
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Care Is Not a Family Value: Gender Frames and the Discourse of "Baby UI"
… opposition to Baby UI, a gendered discourse of deservingness that privileged work over care was consistently invoked in a fashion that ensured the Baby UI initiative was doomed not be implemented and ultimately repealed. In conclusion, I argue future efforts to compensate caregiving must be …
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Analysing understandings of 'rough sleeping': managing, becoming and being homeless
… making in ideas of causation, and dichotomies of deservingness, rough sleepers’ own accounts focus on the importance of context to develop an understanding of the importance of key life events. Furthermore, the research suggests that understandings of rough sleepers’ lives presented in policy and …
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Migratory Timescapes: Experiences of Pausing, Waiting, and Inhabiting the Meanwhile of Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Mexico
… and which is reinforced by a <em>rhetoric of deservingness</em>. Finally, chapter four investigates how migrants and asylum seekers actively inhabit and become socially engaged in spaces and communities that they consider, and wish to abandon as soon as possible, a process that I call …
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(Un)making deserving citizens: Education, activism, and military service of undocumented Korean immigrant young adults
… In particular, I investigate how the notion of deservingness is imagined, challenged, and redefined through their education, activism, and military service. Through transnational approaches, I argue that the deserving citizens are shaped by kinship, ethnic community, and the state, inflected by …
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Entangled Humanitarianism: The Shifting Ethical Landscape of Refugee Resettlement in Missoula, Montana
… economic costs, and racialized hierarchies of deservingness. This dissertation interrogates humanitarianism as an altruistic “good” by examining the U.S. refugee resettlement program, and situating longstanding commitments to refugee resettlement within the framework of racializing and …
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Testing alternative motivational models for self-injurious behavior
… and aversion to emotions, and punishment deservingness. Further, a finger pressure algometer task was employed to determine whether changes in state emotions following the experience of physical pain would be consistent with the expectations of the above models. Overall, results indicated …
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Impact of Administrative Burdens on Undocumented Youth Access to Higher Education and Benefits from In-State Resident Tuition
… political (sub) cultures, narratives about the deservingness, organizational factors as well as the discretion that college personnel has in applying the requirements. Findings suggest that factors associated with residency, notarized affidavits, tax forms, and lack of clear information and …
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The Perceived Association Between Agentic Traits and Creativity: Implications for Gender Bias and Creativity Evaluation
… of agency, not competence, and predicts reward deservingness (Study 4). Finally, I find that the perceived agency of a target specifically predicts perceptions of his product’s novelty, not usefulness (Study 5) and that independence-based agency is perceived to be more strongly associated with …
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The comparative political economy of working time
… by bolstering their sense of their own deservingness. While the "great reversal" and its consequences are shown to have occurred in each of the three cases studied, it happened earlier and went further in the United States than in Germany and, in particular, France. The study concludes …
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Conceptions of disability and desert in the South African welfare state: The case of disability grant assessment
… own subjective understandings of disability and deservingness into the assessment process as they interpreted and applied DG policy in their interactions with claimants - bending the rules for people they thought were 'deserving' and rigidly applying the rules in 'undeserving' cases. Variation in …
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Child Criminal Exploitation, County Lines & Victim Identification: An Exploratory Study
… approach which looks beyond the assessment of deservingness of support through the allocation of victim status, towards our collective responsibility to respond to the needs of all young people involved in county lines and the harms that they have experienced.