Medición funcional en el campo de la Ética en Política

Abstract

We present, in a synthetic way, some of the main findings from ten studies that were conducted in the field of ethics in politics, using the Functional Measurement framework. These studies were about (a) Angolan and Mozambican people's views about the legitimacy of military-humanitarian interventions, (b) French people's perspectives regarding the government's responsibility for the health of consumers of illicit substances, (c) Togolese people's views about the acceptability of political amnesties in a time of political transition, (d) the perspective of victims of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda regarding the attribution of guilt by association to offspring of perpetrators, (e) slave descendants' views about the acceptability of national policies on reparations for slavery, (f) Colombian people's willingness to forgive perpetrators of violence who harmed family members during the civil war, (g) the attitudes of French and Colombian people about national drug control policies, (h) Indian students' views about the appropriateness of the death penalty for murder or rape, (i) Colombian people's perspectives regarding corruption, and finally (j) Venezuelan people's conceptualization of human rights. The main findings are discussed in reference to six of the foundations of Moral Foundations Theory.

Representaciones sobre la justicia: Un estudio comparativo en escolares colombianos

“…La apreciación del valor tiene fuerza normativa o guía de acción para el agente moral; para autores como Janoff-Bulman y Carnes (2013) y Hofmann et al, (2014), el conocimiento conceptual en el juicio moral concierne a quién o qué es lastimado y cómo está siendo perjudicado; siendo consistentes con lo propuesto se esperaría que estos infantes proyecten sus acciones sobre los fenómenos que resultan susceptibles de ser intervenidos por la justicia. Dado que la comprensión de la justicia y el perdón son piezas centrales en procesos como la confianza y la reconciliación (Mullet et al, 2016) la justicia se perfila en niños y niñas como una forma para alcanzar cierto equilibrio en sus vivencias cotidianas y así lograr cierta confianza en la sociedad.…”

French and Venezuelan People’s Conceptualization of Human Rights: Indivisibility and Universality Issues

“…Each participant was tested individually in a calm environment (his/her own house, a friend's house, or at their lunch break at work). The procedure followed Anderson's recommendations for this kind of study (Anderson, 2008(Anderson, , 2016(Anderson, , 2018; see also Mullet et al, 2016). They took 35 to 50 minutes to complete the whole task.…”

Comparing Mozambican and French People’s Conceptualization of Romantic Love

“…Do Hinduists, Buddhists or Muslims, for example, have qualitatively different conceptualizations of romantic love? Information Integration Theory is particularly well suited for such intercultural studies (Mullet et al, 2016). Future studies should also use a more varied set of partnerships.…”