Illuminating the Dark Side of Values: A Framework for Institutional Research
本文探讨价值观如何加剧腐败、气候变化等社会重大挑战，并提出一个框架帮助制度学者通过分析替代价值观和权衡取舍来支持社会协商，避免研究陷入激进或脱离实际。
Values are pivotal to institutions. Although prior research has mostly highlighted their positive effects, values also have a “dark” side, which we illuminate by looking at cases in which values perpetuate societal grand challenges, such as corruption or climate change. Societal deliberation plays an important role in efforts to change such values. In this essay, we explore how institutional scholars can produce insights that support societal deliberation on values that perpetuate grand challenges. We develop a framework on how institutional scholars can support such deliberation by analyzing (1) which alternative values are attainable and (2) how dominant values create trade-offs. By using this framework, institutional researchers can take a middle position between activist research on values, which jeopardizes the independence of research, and detached research on values, which loses the connection to practical concerns.