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Public Professionals' Engagement in Coproduction: The Impact of the Work Environment on Elderly Care Managers' Perceptions on Collaboration With Client Councils KU Leuven
© The Author(s) 2019. In the context of public service delivery, public professionals nowadays intensively collaborate with citizens. The joint, sometimes mandatorily, efforts of citizens and professionals to provide public services have become known as “coproduction.” Although coproduction directly affects professionals’ work environment, professionals’ attitudes toward coproduction are hardly studied. This article explains variation in ...
Public Perceptions of the Seriousness of Crime: Weighing the Harm and the Wrong KU Leuven
The seriousness of crime or ‘crime seriousness’ bears on at least three areas of crime control policy (i.e., criminalization, law enforcement prioritization and sentencing) but is poorly defined. After providing a novel conceptualization of crime seriousness, this article explores the logic—or normative philosophical principles--behind the public’s assessment of crime seriousness and considers how the public’s logic lines up with legal ...
Activity Participation and Perceptions on Informal Public Transport and Bus Rapid Transit in Dar es Salaam Hasselt University
This paper seeks to understand participation in out-of-home activities by inhabitants in Dar es Salaam, and their perceptions toward informal public transport (IPT) and bus rapid transit (BRT) in supporting these activities. Without fixed schedules, IPT (e.g., minibuses, motorcycles, and tricycles) is used as a means of transport for different trips. However, IPT is burdened by poor roads, traffic congestion, and high transport demand. Many ...
Showing results? An analysis of the perceptions of internal and external stakeholders of the public performance communication by the Belgian and Dutch Railways KU Leuven Ghent University
Projection in politicians' perceptions of public opinion University of Antwerp
Research has shown that politicians' perceptions of public opinion are subject to social projection. When estimating the opinions of voters on a broad range of issues, politicians tend to assume that their own preferences are shared by voters. This article revisits this finding and adds to the literature in three ways. First, it makes a conceptual contribution by bringing together different approaches to the analysis of projection and its ...
Emergency Healthcare Providers' Perceptions of Preparedness and Willingness to Work during Disasters and Public Health Emergencies KU Leuven
This study evaluates the perceptions of preparedness and willingness to work during disasters and public health emergencies among 213 healthcare workers at hospitals in the southern region of Saudi Arabia by using a quantitative survey (Fight or Flight). The results showed that participants' willingness to work unconditionally during disasters and emergencies varied based on the type of condition: natural disasters (61.97%), seasonal influenza ...
Warm, cold, competent or incompetent? An empirical assessment of public perceptions of the higher and less educated Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Growing educational differentials in different domains have made some scholars wonder whether these differences have the potential to grow into an educational conflict and associated education-based group consciousness. In this article that question is contrasted with a body of literature which considers educational credentials a form of symbolic capital, that is, institutionalized social status. Theoretical insights derived from the social ...
Integrating public perceptions of proximity and quality in the modelling of urban green space access Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Access to urban green space (UGS) is associated with a number of physical and social benefits. Recognizing the importance of UGS access for people’s well-being, several methods have been proposed to model UGS accessibility and highlight areas underserviced by UGS. However, existing methodologies have several limitations. Models often make use of universal, normative maximum travel distances, which may not reflect the distances people actually ...
Celebrities' quest for a better world understanding flemish public perceptions of celebrities' societal engagement University of Antwerp
Although one of the main aims of celebrities' societal engagement is to grab the attention of a wide audience for a social cause, research about public perceptions of the phenomenon is scarce. This study wants to gain a theoretical and empirical insight into the possible influence of celebrities' engagements on the general population. An internet survey among a sample of one thousand Flemish adults was conducted to ascertain which celebrities ...