scholarly journals RFE/RL Never Had a Separate Broadcast Service in Romanian for Soviet Moldavia… Interview with A. Ross Johnson, Former Director of Radio Free Europe (Sergiu Musteață)

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-163
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Staff Member ◽  
Rand Corporation ◽  
Senior Executive ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
Senior Staff ◽  
East European ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Radio Free Europe ◽  
Senior Staff Member

A. Ross JOHNSON is a History and Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington and Senior Adviser at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Johnson was a senior executive of RFE/RL from 1988 to 2002, serving as director of Radio Free Europe, director of the RFE/RL Research Institute, acting president, and counselor of RFE/RL. He was a research fellow at the Hoover Institution from 2002 to 2016 and senior staff member of the RAND Corporation from 1969 to 1988, where he specialized in East European and Soviet security issues. He is author of the book Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. The CIA Years and Beyond.

The Transition to Online Teaching and Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 188-196
Author(s):  
Greg Whateley ◽  
Alan Manly
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Staff Member ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Online Teaching And Learning ◽  
Senior Staff ◽  
Online Format ◽  
Senior Staff Member

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 provided both a need and an opportunity for educational institutions in Sydney to explore new ways of providing teaching and learning for their students. UBSS was able to respond quickly because it had already prepared to introduce online learning. In mid-2019, the institution had decided to offer an online option and a senior staff member and support staff had been working since then to convert existing product into suitable online format. By the time the demand for online teaching and learning arrived, the institution was already well placed for the conversion.

scholarly journals Integrity and Security in the E-Century

2008 ◽  
pp. 3229-3249
Author(s):  
Carolyn Currie
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Deposit Insurance ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Regulatory Issues ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Institutional Issues

E-commerce offers an enormous range of solutions to payment and settlements problems. However it also poses a myriad of regulatory issues. Understanding the technical, taxation and institutional issues posed by e-commerce that impact the ability to provide such services aids in comprehending the vast integrity and security issues surrounding this innovation. In this chapter the effect of this technological innovation is examined in the light of theories of regulation that postulate a struggle process between attempts to control innovation and further innovation and regulation. To understand how regulation of e-commerce may be counterproductive, a case study of the evolution of regulation of derivatives is used to test a hypothesis concerning social and avoidance costs. A comparative case study of regulation of e-commerce is then examined to suggest a policy approach of a private sector solution within a public policy matrix similar to private deposit insurance.

That Funny Feeling Creeping Up Your Back

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Feinberg
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Voice Of America ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
East European ◽  
Security Services ◽  
Radio Free Europe ◽  
The Voice

This chapter analyzes interviews that the radio stations Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America conducted with refugees from Eastern Europe. It examines how these interviews were used to create knowledge about the region and how refugee stories reflected the paradigms of East European and Western (primarily American) propaganda. This chapter concentrates on the fears refugees had about the Communist security services and their networks of informers. Refugees often made claims about Communist security services that wildly overstated their numbers. These claims then resurfaced in RFE radio broadcasts, further supporting beliefs in Eastern Europe about the omniscience of police informers. This chapter also speculates on the reluctance of Western analysts to consider information that contradicted claims about the ubiquity of police terror in Eastern Europe, even when it came directly from the same refugees.

Battling the Big Lie

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Feinberg
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Voice Of America ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
East European ◽  
American Media ◽  
History Of ◽  
Radio Free Europe ◽  
Totalitarian Regimes

This chapter examines the characterization of Eastern Europe in the American media, concentrating on the role of East European émigrés in shaping American perceptions of their homeland. It focuses on the role of American-sponsored radio stations, such as the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe These radio stations broadcast an anticommunist perspective to Eastern Europe and played key roles in creating American knowledge about the region. The annual Crusade for Freedom, designed to raise money for RFE, sought to mobilize Americans against totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe. In the American media, East Europeans were often referred to as “the captive peoples.” This chapter tells the history of this discourse of East European captivity and examines how it circulated back and forth across the Iron Curtain, moving from émigré publications into the American media and back into Eastern Europe.

The Study of Public Administration

1942 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egbert S. Wengert
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Present Note ◽  
The State ◽  
Woodrow Wilson

Emphasis on the study of public administration has in recent years become so marked that of all the fields in the study of government it stands out as the most rapidly growing. What Woodrow Wilson called attention to some fifty years ago has in fact become the center of interest in political science. No longer is hard study confined to the problem of making constitutions. The study of administration has concerned itself extensively with the processes and procedures, with the ways of carrying out public policy. However, Woodrow Wilson's advice, recommending the careful determination of the basic political conceptions necessary for the student of public administration, has not always been followed; and the present note is designed to suggest some factors bearing on these basic political conceptions. Specifically, it is to be emphasized that the means through which the state carries on its functions cannot be adequately analyzed except in relation to its ends.

Woodrow Wilson and the Tradition of Dualism in Public Administration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Svara
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
The Other ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
The Public ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Clear Support ◽  
The Ideal

Woodrow Wilson’s early writings contributed to the emerging effort in the 1880s to redefine and reform the field of public administration and to clarify its relationship to elected officials. Wilson envisioned an active and independent administration that was accountable to elected officials for carrying out the policies they established. Administrators should display expertise and operate efficiently, yet they should be attuned to the views of the public and not seek to determine the content of public policy. Elected officials should stop intervening in determining the detailed decisions made by administrators. The central interpretation of Wilson’s views is that politics and policy, on the one hand, and administration, on the other, were not strictly divided in a dichotomous relationship. They were two distinct but interconnected parts of a duality. There was clear support for the view espoused by Wilson in the next half century and a recognition that administrators assisted elected officials in the formulation of policy. The view that the ideal relationship between elected officials and administrators was a dichotomy took hold, and some claimed that Wilson advocated this strict separation. Subsequent theorizing and empirical research by public administration scholars have clearly supported a dualistic view of the relationship and have recognized Wilson’s contribution to establishing a model for the field that would stress complementarity between elected officials and administrators, rather than dichotomy.

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