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2. Do future public servants have more anti-discriminatory behavior?

Author

Lahey, Joanna N., Weaver, Alexis J., and Oxley, Douglas R.

Subjects
CIVIL service, PUBLIC sector, BUSINESS students, PRIVATE sector, MUNICIPAL services, RACIAL differences
Abstract

Many studies find that public sector employees are less discriminatory than private sector. One possible explanation for these differences is that people with public service training are less discriminatory. Using a laboratory experiment we compare how undergraduate and graduate students from a large southwestern university rate unique randomized clerical resumes by the race of the applicant. We find that students with public sector training at the undergraduate or graduate level tend to favor resumes with distinctively Black names, while non-government students slightly favor resumes with non-Black names. On average, students with public sector training or degrees rate resumes with Black names between 6% and 12% higher than do students with business or other training. There is no difference among those with and without public sector training in the time spent on resumes with distinctively Black names compared to those without. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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9. Collective Action Creates Cooperative People: Political Institutions and the Evolution of Cooperation.

Author

Smith, Kevin B. and Oxley, Douglas R.

Subjects
*PUBLIC institutions, *GOVERNMENT agencies, *COLLECTIVE action, *SOCIAL action, *SOCIAL sciences
Abstract

Designers of political institutions generally assume human nature is inherently selfish. Yet those seeking to explain the evolution of cooperative predispositions accept that cooperation is a ubiquitous feature of human life. In this paper, we assume a selfish state of nature and explore the extent that differing institutional environments promote the development of cooperative traits. We find that institutional forms that force collective action do not simply create the incentives for selfish agents to cooperate; they promote the evolution of genuinely cooperative predispositions. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007

10. Fairness, Justice and an Individual Basis for Public Policy

Author

Oxley, Douglas R

Subjects
Fairness, Public Policy, Decision-making, Policy Process, American Politics, Political Science
Abstract

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 society of agents engaged in decision-making using similar criteria. The simulation suggests that incentives have an important role in leading to cooperation and social success. The external validity of the simulation also implies that it can act as a platform for future evolutionary policy experimentation.

Published
2010

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