David Johnston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Johnston |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnston |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5114-5355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 147 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 146 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1900 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Vital Presence in Hispanic Studies John C. McIntyre (1941–2025) Generous Teacher and Thinker
John McIntyre was born in 1941, in Motherwell, then a largely industrial town, about twelve miles south of Glasgow in North Lanarkshire, but grew up in New Stevenson, a village just to the north of
Handling Stolen Goods
Danielle Allen's Design for Democracy: A Review Essay
In Justice by Means of Democracy, author Danielle Allen argues that justice in the fullest sense requires a robust set of democratic institutions and practices. Focused on the United States, the author challenges the idea that justice can be achieved by first maximizing economic output and then redistributing funds and benefits to enhance the welfare of poor and less-well-off people. In the book, Allen suggests a wide range of policy proposals an…
Religiosity and crime: Evidence from a city-wide shock
This paper estimates the impacts of religiosity on criminal activity using a city-wide shock to religious sentiment from a 2015 Papal visit. Using daily data on all reported offenses between 2010 and 2015 in Philadelphia at the census tract level and a difference-in-differences approach, we demonstrate significant reductions in less serious crimes in the week of the visit and for several weeks following. Reductions are particularly pronounced for…
Blackstone's Police Investigators' Manual 2025
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A decade of shaking in the Garden City: The dynamics of preparedness, perceptions, and beliefs in Canterbury, New Zealand, and implications for earthquake information
Introduction This study explored earthquake preparedness over time—before, during, and 10 years after the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (CES) in New Zealand (NZ; known as Aotearoa in te ao Māori). Method Surveys of Canterbury residents were conducted in 2009, 2013, and 2021, using variables derived from Community Engagement Theory (CET). The surveys measured earthquake perceptions and beliefs, participation and engagement, and preparedness actio…
Nurturing partnerships to support data access for impact forecasts and warnings: Theoretical integration and synthesis
This paper presents a synthesis and theoretical integration of findings from a research project that explored the data needs and sources for implementing impact forecasts and warnings (IFW) for hydrometeorological hazards. Impact forecasts and warnings (IFW) have received global attention in recent years as they offer a novel way of improving the communication of hazards and risks. The fundamental idea behind IFWs is to enable warning services to…
Handling Stolen Goods
How Visual Design of Severe Weather Outlooks Can Affect Communication and Decision-Making
Multiday severe weather outlooks can inform planning beyond the hour-to-day windows of warnings and watches. Outlooks can be complex to visualize, as they represent large-scale weather phenomena overlapping across several days at varying levels of uncertainty. Here, we present the results of a survey ( n = 417) that explores how visual variables affect comprehension, inferences, and intended decision-making in a hypothetical scenario with the New…
Identifying the Impact-Related Data Uses and Gaps for Hydrometeorological Impact Forecasts and Warnings
Impact forecasts and warnings (IFW) are key to resilience for hydrometeorological hazards. Communicating the potential social, economic, and environmental hazard impacts allows individuals and communities to adjust their plans and better prepare for the consequences of the hazard. IFW systems require additional knowledge about impacts and underlying vulnerability and exposure. Lack of data or knowledge about impacts, vulnerability, and exposure h…
Exploring the potential role of citizen science in the warning value chain for high impact weather
Preparing and delivering warnings to the public involves a chain of processes spanning different organizations and stakeholders from numerous disciplines. At each stage of this warning chain, relevant groups apply their expertise, but sharing information and transmission of data between groups is often imperfect. In diverse research fields, citizen science has been valuable in filling gaps through contributing local data. However, there is limite…
Mataura flood 2020, Aotearoa New Zealand: A case study highlighting resilience through community spirit
Sizing up disaster risk reduction: A qualitative study of the voices of big bodied people in Aotearoa New Zealand
A qualitative study of emergency management considerations for big-bodied people in Aotearoa New Zealand
Infrastructure planning emergency levels of service for the Wellington region, Aotearoa New Zealand – A preliminary framework
Elements of a potential emergency response to a major hazard event can be identified early in the response planning process. Having goals for emergency provision of services, particularly infrastructure, would provide clear planning goals and actions for emergency responders. Agreed goals would also help residents more fully understand the likely nature of the service provisions following a major hazard event, allowing them to plan for events and…
Evaluating audio description and emotional engagement for BPS visitors in a museum context: An experimental perspective
Museums face a particular challenge in enabling blind and partially sighted (BPS) visitors to engage emotionally with the narrative(s) they present. In collaboration with a world-leading tourist attraction (Titanic Belfast) and the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), we have applied several different approaches for improving emotional engagement for BPS visitors. This paper addresses the critical challenge of how to obtain reliable e…
Between safeguarding and translating: Chinese classical opera and Spanish Golden Age theatre
Chinese classical opera is caught in a stranglehold, promoted as a key art form in China’s assertion of its global presence but declared untranslatable by gatekeepers distrustful of Western appropriative translation practices, and concerned to safeguard the form as the unique expression of Chinese identity. There is a parallel here with Spanish Golden Age theatre, which has struggled against the tag of an untranslatability rooted in the inviolabi…
The early course and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in very young children: Diagnostic prevalence and predictors in hospital‐attending children and a randomized controlled proof‐of‐concept…
BACKGROUND: The introduction of developmentally adapted criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has improved the identification of ≤6-year-old children with clinical needs. Across two studies, we assess predictors of the development of PTSD in young children (PTSD-YC), including the adult-led acute stress disorder (ASD) diagnosis, and provide proof of principle for cognitive-focused therapy for this age range, with the aim of increasing…
Stigmatising and Racialising Covid-19: Asian People’s Experience in New Zealand
The Asian community - the second largest non-European ethnic community in New Zealand - plays an important role in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic, evidenced by their active advocation for border control and mass masking. Despite the long history of racial discrimination against the Asian population, the Asian community has experienced certain degrees of racial discrimination associated with the stigmatisation as the cause of the COVID-19 outbre…
Dees: A real-time system for event extraction from disaster-related web text
Shifting Selves and Spaces: Conceptualising School Emergency Remote Teaching as a Third Space
The COVID-19 pandemic was the catalyst for unprecedented change within education systems around the world. Teaching and learning which had traditionally taken place in school classrooms suddenly moved online. Teachers’ responses to the emergency changed not just pedagogy but who was teaching as well as when and where teaching took place. Bhabha’s ‘third space’ (1994) provides a way of re-imagining the new spaces (both physical and virtual) which …
Empathy: One Canadian's Rules for Turning Compassion into Action
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Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against Covid-19
How to hold down transmission Early in 2020, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission was curbed in many countries by imposing combinations of nonpharmaceutical interventions. Sufficient data on transmission have now accumulated to discern the effectiveness of individual interventions. Brauner et al. amassed and curated data from 41 countries as input to a model to identify the individual nonpharmaceutical interve…
The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation
The description for this book, The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation, will be forthcoming
The impact of the 2004 tsunami on coastal Thai communities: Assessing Adaptive Capacity
The suddenness and scale of the 26 December 2004 tsunami and the challenges posed to affected communities highlighted the benefits of their members having a capacity to confront and adapt to the consequences of such a disaster.2Research into adaptive capacity or resilience has been conducted almost exclusively with Western populations. This paper describes an exploratory study of the potential of a measure of collective efficacy developed for Wes…
The Structure and Process of International Law: Essays in Legal Philosophy, Doctrine and Theory
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 492 - 493
Immediate behavioural responses to earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan
This study examines people's immediate responses to earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan. Data collected from 257 respondents in Christchurch and 332 respondents in Hitachi revealed notable similarities between the two cities in people's emotional reactions, risk perceptions, and immediate protective actions during the events. Respondents' physical, household, and social contexts were quite similar, but Hitachi residents r…
The Idea of a Liberal Theory: A Critique and Reconstruction
Liberalism, the founding philosophy of many constitutional democracies, has been criticized in recent years from both the left and the right for placing too much faith in individual rights and distributive justice. In this book, David Johnston argues for a reinterpretation of liberal principles he contends will restore liberalism to a position of intellectual leadership from which it can guide political and social reforms. He begins by surveying …
Hayek's attack on social justice
Hayek assailed the idea of social justice by arguing that any effort to realize it would transform society into an oppressive organization, stißing liberty. Hayek's view is marred by two omissions. First, he fails to consider that the goal of social justice, like the goal of wealth generation, might be promoted by strategies of indirection that do not entail oppressive organization. Second, he underestimates the tendency of the market order itsel…
Students in distress: Unanticipated findings in a cyber bullying study
A Turn in the Epistemology and Hermeneutics of Twentieth Century U⋅ūl al-Fiqh
I argue here that an epistemological shift has taken place in twentieth century u⋅ūl al-fiqh: away from the classical/orthodox Ash'arī position in which the human mind simply discovers the divine law and extends it to new cases on the basis of consensus (ijmā') and analogical reasoning (qiyās); and toward a position in which reason is empowered to uncover the ratio legis behind the divine injunctions — a distinctly Mu'tazilī a pproach. This shift…
Is the idea of social justice meaningful
Hayek claimed that the idea of social justice is meaningless in a market economy because in that context, no identifiable agent intentionally brings about the distribution of wealth. But the assumption that the existence of injustice entails an identifiable agent of injustice is erroneous. Moreover, Hayek ignores the fact that in a market economy, the broad pattern of economic outcomes is foreseeable even if detailed, person‐by‐person outcomes ar…
Having a thick skin is essential’: Mental health challenges for young apprentices in Australia
Apprenticeships are a common pathway for young people transitioning from education to employment, and adolescence to adulthood. Apprenticeships have undergone considerable reform, and since the 1990s labour market priorities in Australia have resulted in weakening of protections offered to workers through the award system and trade unions. At the same time, mental health issues have increased, with young people carrying a disproportionate burden.…
Reflections on retrofits: Overcoming barriers to energy efficiency among the fuel poor in the United Kingdom
To meet targets on fuel poverty, energy efficiency and carbon emissions existing homes need to be more energy efficient. We report the results of a participatory action research project to explore the challenges associated with energy efficiency retrofit programmes and ways to better implement future schemes
Convergent validity between a discrete choice experiment and a direct, open-ended method: Comparison of preferred attribute levels and willingness to pay estimates
The World Archaeological Congress (Wac) And The Wac First Code Of Ethics
(1991). The World Archaeological Congress (Wac) And The Wac First Code Of Ethics. Australian Archaeology: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 64-67
Shifting Selves and Spaces: Conceptualising School Emergency Remote Teaching as a Third Space
The COVID-19 pandemic was the catalyst for unprecedented change within education systems around the world. Teaching and learning which had traditionally taken place in school classrooms suddenly moved online. Teachers’ responses to the emergency changed not just pedagogy but who was teaching as well as when and where teaching took place. Bhabha’s ‘third space’ (1994) provides a way of re-imagining the new spaces (both physical and virtual) which …
Contested meanings of recovery: A critical exploration of the Canterbury earthquakes–voices from the social sciences
The Canterbury earthquakes of 2010-2012 have been generation shaping. People living and working in and around the city during this time have had their lives and social landscapes changed forever. The earthquake response, recovery and rebuild efforts have highlighted unheralded social strengths and vulnerabilities within individuals, organisations, communities and country writ large. It is imperative that the social sciences stand up to be counted…
Maqāsid Al-Sharī A: Epistemology and Hermeneutics of Muslim Theologies of Human Rights
This essay explores the purposive strategy of modern Islamic legal theory (i.e., based on maqāsid al-sharīa, with public benefit, or maslaha, as the sharī`a's main purpose) and its use in articulating an Islamic theology of human rights. After a synopsis of contemporary research on Islam and human rights, the essay highlights the main issues involved in the twentiethcentury turn to a purposive approach in usūl al-fiqh (Islamic legal theory). The …
Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy
Munificence and Municipia: Bequests to Towns in Classical Roman Law
Extensive epigraphic evidence, juristic discussion, and mention in the letters of Pliny combine to show that testamentary munificence during the principate was a phenomenon of both social and economic importance. Beyond a few introductory remarks, however, this paper is not concerned with the social background and functions of philanthropy. Rather, how was munificence regulated? On what conditions for the use of their bequests would benefactors i…
The Byzantine basilica church at Knossos
The Hellenistic and Roman city of Knossos occupied a broad plateau extending northward of the Minoan Palace towards the sea. For nearly a mile from the Palace the fields are studded with the debris of occupation. One of the great Roman town houses was partly excavated before the War by Mr. R. W. Hutchinson and the work has been continued by Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gough, now of the British Institute in Ankara. A splendid series of second- to third-c…
Notice of the Discovery of a Pre-historic Burial-Place at Quarff, Shetland
The Byzantine basilica church at Knossos
The Hellenistic and Roman city of Knossos occupied a broad plateau extending northward of the Minoan Palace towards the sea. For nearly a mile from the Palace the fields are studded with the debris of occupation. One of the great Roman town houses was partly excavated before the War by Mr. R. W. Hutchinson and the work has been continued by Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gough, now of the British Institute in Ankara. A splendid series of second- to third-c…
American Higher Education: A Documentary History
The History of Western Carolina College-The Progress of an Idea
Foundations of Teaching: An Introduction to Modern Education
The Techniques of Teaching
Rewarding Creative Behavior: Experiments in Classroom Creativity
Teacher Education in America: A Documentary History
The Emergence of the American University
The Superior Student in American Higher Education
Co-Operative Curriculum Improvement
The Role of the Federal Government in Education
The Necessary Revolution in American Education
Values for a Changing America
Changing Thought in Primary and Secondary Education
Lifelong Learning: A Symposium on Continuing Education
Exemption from Sales Disclosure in Regular Financial Statements: Courts, Tribunals, and Business Judgments
Decision Making in British Education
Poverty Inequality and Class Structure
Lucia Fanizza, Giuristi Crimini Leggi Nell'età Degli Antonini (Pubblicazioni della Facoltà giuridica dell'Università di Bari I.XV). Naples: Jovene, 1982. Pp. xii + 133
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Munificence and Municipia: Bequests to Towns in Classical Roman Law
Extensive epigraphic evidence, juristic discussion, and mention in the letters of Pliny combine to show that testamentary munificence during the principate was a phenomenon of both social and economic importance. Beyond a few introductory remarks, however, this paper is not concerned with the social background and functions of philanthropy. Rather, how was munificence regulated? On what conditions for the use of their bequests would benefactors i…
The Structure and Process of International Law: Essays in Legal Philosophy, Doctrine and Theory
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 492 - 493
The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation
The description for this book, The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural Transformation, will be forthcoming
Three Thoughts on Roman Private law and the Lex Irnitana
New discoveries are customarily hailed as events of the greatest importance; whether they always are is a matter more for the judgement of posterity than of the discoverer. But the Lex Irnitana is exceptional. Discovered in Spain in 1981, it has now been published for the first time with translation and commentary. It is the most complete copy yet discovered of the Flavian municipal law already known in more fragmentary form from Salpensa and Mal…
Aristotle's Apodeictic Syllogism
In the Prior Analytics Aristotle examines syllogisms that contain apodeictic and problematic premisses, as well as combinations of these with assertoric premisses. Of these various syllogisms, it is the mixed apodeictic-assertoric type that has received the most attention. Aristotle discusses this type of syllogism in Prior Analytics I.ix–xii. In this paper I will deal primarily with these syllogisms, which I will henceforth refer to simply as ‘a…
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