Richard P Nielsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 709615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard P Nielsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard P |
| FAMILY NAME | Nielsen |
| SIGNATURE | NIELSEN R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Supply of Conspiracism in State-Controlled Media
When, and why, do governments promote conspiracy theories and use conspiracist language in official media? We build on claims that autocrats use misinformation for diversionary purposes by showing that the level of threat a regime faces affects conspiracism: a mix of “classic” conspiracy theorizing and conspiratorial language. Governments facing threats may attempt to stave them off by promoting conspiracy theories in state media. By contrast, se…
Ecumenical Similarities between Ignatian and Quaker Dialogic Leadership Principles, Processes, and Application within Large Secular University Contexts
precis: This essay seeks to articulate the relationships between Ignatian and Quaker "seeking that of Go[o]d in all things" and the "servant leadership" method, and between "communal discernment" and the "service-based participative group decision-making" process methods. These core principles and processes are related to what has been termed "wider ecumenism," "bottom-up ecumenism," and "tactical ecumenism." Large Jesuit and Quaker universities …
Reformed National Security Internal Whistleblowing Systems and External Whistleblowing as Countervailing Ethics Methods
This article (a) reviews parts of the general literature on internal and external whistleblowing, (b) reviews parts of the national security whistleblowing literature and context, (c) discusses theoretical and legal reasons for considering whistleblowing as a countervailing ethics method, (d) discusses problems with the current national security internal whistleblowing system, (e) proposes developmental changes and reforms, (f) considers why pote…
Organizational Ethics
Organizational ethics is the study of ethics issues, the causes of ethics problems, and the types of solutions to ethics problems that are caused by and/or associated with structural organizational phenomena found across business, nonprofit, and government types of organizations. From a social science perspective, ethical issues in business, nonprofit, and government organization are often much more similar than they are different. Similarly, the…
Workplace Democracy
Workplace democracy is the practice of democratic, political principles in the workplace. Democracy, and derivatively, workplace democracy are considered both ethical ends in themselves as well as ethical and productive means to the end of economic and social development. Workplace democracy is motivated by the belief that a person and society can achieve greater flourishing and ethical development though citizenship responsibilities and rights t…
Praxis
Ethics praxis is ethical action that makes the actor a better person and the world a better place. It is action that is an end in itself. According to Bernstein (1971, ix), “The Greek term ‘praxis’ has an ordinary meaning that roughly corresponds to the ways in which we now commonly speak of ‘action’ or ‘doing,’ and it is frequently translated into English as ‘practice.’” As Bernstein (1971) interprets Aristotle, a contrast is made between two di…
Serving two masters: Transformative resolutions to institutional contradictions
In this article, we use the case of religious research universities to explore the presence of multiple institutional logics with the potential for contradiction and conflict. In particular, building on existing research on conflicting institutional logics, we assess the most common forms of resolution (replacement, dominant logic, decoupling, compartmentalization, and coexistence) and identify the potential for a new form of resolution – a trans…
Negotiating as an ethics action (praxis) strategy
Limitations of ethical reasoning as an action (praxis) strategy
Industrial Policy: Review and Historical Perspective
Government-Owned Businesses: Market Presence, Competitive Advantages and Rationales for Their Support by the State
In the aggregate, within industries and within non-socialist countries, the market presence of State-owned businesses is large and growing. Such concerns accounted for 15 percent of world trade in 1979 and they produced 70 percent of world oil production, 40 percent of world iron and bauxite and they accounted for 40 percent of the world's banking assets. Certain governments tend to accord them competitive advantages. Reasons given for doing so r…
Public Policy and Attitudes on Tax Support for Live Artistic Communications Media
Hypothesized direct and interaction relationships among the dependent variable willingness to pay more taxes for support of live artistic communications media and the independent variables of past attendance, education, income, leisure time, and liberalism-conservatism are tested. Past enjoyment probably makes people more favorable to tax support. Social policy implications of the results are discussed
Dialogue
Communicating With and Motivating High Fatalists
In three studies responses of high and low fatalists to five different types of communications messages were compared. The five types of information considered were single reward, multiple reward, reward explanations, conformity, and nonsense information. Nutritional, political, and reading behaviors were considered. Two field experiments were conducted with male heads of households and a laboratory experiment was conducted with students. The hig…
Negotiating as an ethics action (praxis) strategy
The Supply of Conspiracism in State-Controlled Media
When, and why, do governments promote conspiracy theories and use conspiracist language in official media? We build on claims that autocrats use misinformation for diversionary purposes by showing that the level of threat a regime faces affects conspiracism: a mix of “classic” conspiracy theorizing and conspiratorial language. Governments facing threats may attempt to stave them off by promoting conspiracy theories in state media. By contrast, se…
Reformed National Security Internal Whistleblowing Systems and External Whistleblowing as Countervailing Ethics Methods
This article (a) reviews parts of the general literature on internal and external whistleblowing, (b) reviews parts of the national security whistleblowing literature and context, (c) discusses theoretical and legal reasons for considering whistleblowing as a countervailing ethics method, (d) discusses problems with the current national security internal whistleblowing system, (e) proposes developmental changes and reforms, (f) considers why pote…
Industrial Policy: Review and Historical Perspective
Communicating With and Motivating High Fatalists
In three studies responses of high and low fatalists to five different types of communications messages were compared. The five types of information considered were single reward, multiple reward, reward explanations, conformity, and nonsense information. Nutritional, political, and reading behaviors were considered. Two field experiments were conducted with male heads of households and a laboratory experiment was conducted with students. The hig…
Dialogue
Public Policy and Attitudes on Tax Support for Live Artistic Communications Media
Hypothesized direct and interaction relationships among the dependent variable willingness to pay more taxes for support of live artistic communications media and the independent variables of past attendance, education, income, leisure time, and liberalism-conservatism are tested. Past enjoyment probably makes people more favorable to tax support. Social policy implications of the results are discussed
Government-Owned Businesses: Market Presence, Competitive Advantages and Rationales for Their Support by the State
In the aggregate, within industries and within non-socialist countries, the market presence of State-owned businesses is large and growing. Such concerns accounted for 15 percent of world trade in 1979 and they produced 70 percent of world oil production, 40 percent of world iron and bauxite and they accounted for 40 percent of the world's banking assets. Certain governments tend to accord them competitive advantages. Reasons given for doing so r…
Industrial Policy: Review and Historical Perspective
Limitations of ethical reasoning as an action (praxis) strategy
Negotiating as an ethics action (praxis) strategy
Serving two masters: Transformative resolutions to institutional contradictions
In this article, we use the case of religious research universities to explore the presence of multiple institutional logics with the potential for contradiction and conflict. In particular, building on existing research on conflicting institutional logics, we assess the most common forms of resolution (replacement, dominant logic, decoupling, compartmentalization, and coexistence) and identify the potential for a new form of resolution – a trans…
Organizational Ethics
Organizational ethics is the study of ethics issues, the causes of ethics problems, and the types of solutions to ethics problems that are caused by and/or associated with structural organizational phenomena found across business, nonprofit, and government types of organizations. From a social science perspective, ethical issues in business, nonprofit, and government organization are often much more similar than they are different. Similarly, the…
Workplace Democracy
Workplace democracy is the practice of democratic, political principles in the workplace. Democracy, and derivatively, workplace democracy are considered both ethical ends in themselves as well as ethical and productive means to the end of economic and social development. Workplace democracy is motivated by the belief that a person and society can achieve greater flourishing and ethical development though citizenship responsibilities and rights t…
Praxis
Ethics praxis is ethical action that makes the actor a better person and the world a better place. It is action that is an end in itself. According to Bernstein (1971, ix), “The Greek term ‘praxis’ has an ordinary meaning that roughly corresponds to the ways in which we now commonly speak of ‘action’ or ‘doing,’ and it is frequently translated into English as ‘practice.’” As Bernstein (1971) interprets Aristotle, a contrast is made between two di…
Reformed National Security Internal Whistleblowing Systems and External Whistleblowing as Countervailing Ethics Methods
This article (a) reviews parts of the general literature on internal and external whistleblowing, (b) reviews parts of the national security whistleblowing literature and context, (c) discusses theoretical and legal reasons for considering whistleblowing as a countervailing ethics method, (d) discusses problems with the current national security internal whistleblowing system, (e) proposes developmental changes and reforms, (f) considers why pote…
Ecumenical Similarities between Ignatian and Quaker Dialogic Leadership Principles, Processes, and Application within Large Secular University Contexts
precis: This essay seeks to articulate the relationships between Ignatian and Quaker "seeking that of Go[o]d in all things" and the "servant leadership" method, and between "communal discernment" and the "service-based participative group decision-making" process methods. These core principles and processes are related to what has been termed "wider ecumenism," "bottom-up ecumenism," and "tactical ecumenism." Large Jesuit and Quaker universities …
The Supply of Conspiracism in State-Controlled Media
When, and why, do governments promote conspiracy theories and use conspiracist language in official media? We build on claims that autocrats use misinformation for diversionary purposes by showing that the level of threat a regime faces affects conspiracism: a mix of “classic” conspiracy theorizing and conspiratorial language. Governments facing threats may attempt to stave them off by promoting conspiracy theories in state media. By contrast, se…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Business ethics (3 works)