In dit onderzoek is er gekeken naar de relatie tussen de mate van overheidsinvesteringen in percentages van het GDP en het percentage vrouwen in de top van het openbaar bestuur. De dataset is...Show moreIn dit onderzoek is er gekeken naar de relatie tussen de mate van overheidsinvesteringen in percentages van het GDP en het percentage vrouwen in de top van het openbaar bestuur. De dataset is samengesteld uit de Worldbank database. De sample bestaat uit 26 OECD aangesloten landen en de data is gemeten over een tijdsperiode van 12 jaar, cohort 2006-2017. De lineaire regressie liet zien dat er een positieve correlatie is tussen de onderzochte variabelen. Dit resultaat is verder bestudeerd aan de hand van literatuuronderzoek. Hoewel dit onderzoek geen causaal verband kan aantonen, laat het wel zien dat het consistent is met de gestelde verwachtingen. Dit biedt mogelijkheden voor vervolgonderzoek.Show less
Our economic activities have great effect on the life sustaining systems of our earth. The prevention of rising above a critical ecological ceiling is an important social goal. Simultaneously, a...Show moreOur economic activities have great effect on the life sustaining systems of our earth. The prevention of rising above a critical ecological ceiling is an important social goal. Simultaneously, a focus on providing all people with a social foundation should be a central endeavour. These goals are inextricably linked; a breach of the ecological ceiling, through human activity, has detrimental effects on the social foundation. In my analysis of these issues in the areas of philosophy and economics I have arrived at the following requirements, which serve as an addendum to Rawls’ principles of justice and his just savings principle. In order to aid the pursuit of intergenerational justice, in particular in the face of anthropogenic climate change, we should: 1. adopt a positive savings rate, so as to explicitly define the obligation to focus our policies on providing for the least well-off transgenerationally; 2. adopt a policy of agnostic growth, where we focus on good climate policy instead of steering for growth, allowing for a Pareto-efficient balance between growth and social welfare from the economic production processes, and 3. embed these policies in circular economy, where resources are protected and a sustainable social environment is nurtured.Show less
Recent studies in political demography have concluded that young adults, when overrepresented in a country's population, form an obstacle to democracy. After performing linear regressions on a new...Show moreRecent studies in political demography have concluded that young adults, when overrepresented in a country's population, form an obstacle to democracy. After performing linear regressions on a new global database using data from Polity IV, UNPD, and IIASA/VID, it is demonstrated that the role of young adults cannot unanimously be dismissed as obstructive in the democratization process. Instead, a new variable indicating the percentage of a country’s population that is both young and highly educated is introduced. This variable is proved to offer stable predictions on that country's level of democracy across time and space.Show less
