What Do Policy Makers Learn from Foresights Around ICT-Enabled Learning—A Comment from a Policy Maker Perspective

2015 ◽  
pp. 91-104
Author(s):  
Lieve van den Brande
Keyword(s):  
Policy Maker ◽  
Policy Makers

scholarly journals Evolution of models to support community and policy action with science: Balancing pastoral livelihoods and wildlife conservation in savannas of East Africa

2009 ◽  
Vol 113 (17) ◽  
pp. 4579-4584 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Reid ◽  
D. Nkedianye ◽  
M. Y. Said ◽  
D. Kaelo ◽  
M. Neselle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Policy Maker ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Creation

We developed a “continual engagement” model to better integrate knowledge from policy makers, communities, and researchers with the goal of promoting more effective action to balance poverty alleviation and wildlife conservation in 4 pastoral ecosystems of East Africa. The model involved the creation of a core boundary-spanning team, including community facilitators, a policy facilitator, and transdisciplinary researchers, responsible for linking with a wide range of actors from local to global scales. Collaborative researcher−facilitator community teams integrated local and scientific knowledge to help communities and policy makers improve herd quality and health, expand biodiversity payment schemes, develop land-use plans, and fully engage together in pastoral and wildlife policy development. This model focused on the creation of hybrid scientific−local knowledge highly relevant to community and policy maker needs. The facilitation team learned to be more effective by focusing on noncontroversial livelihood issues before addressing more difficult wildlife issues, using strategic and periodic engagement with most partners instead of continual engagement, and reducing costs by providing new scientific information only when deemed essential. We conclude by examining the role of facilitation in redressing asymmetries in power in researcher−community−policy maker teams, the role of individual values and character in establishing trust, and how to sustain knowledge-action links when project funding ends.

scholarly journals Consistency Dilemma of Korean Energy Policy

1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (0) ◽  
pp. 44-59
Author(s):  
Dalgon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Energy Policy ◽  
Policy Maker ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Economic Planning ◽  
Energy Market ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Changing Environments ◽  
Long Range Planning ◽  
High Level

This paper examines the continuity of Korean energy policy for the last 30 years and consistency of energy policy with other energy-related policies. Because energy policy environment is characterized by high level of uncertainty, long-range planning as well as skillful adaptation to changing environments are both needed. But there are costs the two different approaches must pay. Energy sector has its close connections with economic and environmental sectors. Energy policy-maker should find ways to minimize any conflict between related policies. Economic planning must be designed awaring of the constraints energy sector faces, and energy sector planning inevitably affects environmental quality. And priority among related policy areas must be adjusted according to changing situations. This paper calls policy-makers' attention to consistent policy process in the midst of favorable international energy market and emergence of green movement.

Persuading policy-makers

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-542
Author(s):  
Christian Salas
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Policy Maker ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Public Signals ◽  
The World ◽  
Will Force ◽  
Public Signal ◽  
Opinion Polls

Interest groups persuade policy-makers by publicly providing information about policies—for example, through commissioning scientific studies or piloting programs—or about constituents’ views—for example, through opinion polls or organizing manifestations. By understanding these public lobbying activities as public signals whose informational content can be strategically manipulated, this paper studies the strategic use of these tools in order to persuade a policy-maker. A game between a policy-oriented interest group who can design a public signal and a self-interested executive who can implement a policy is used to analyze the equilibrium public signal and policy, the underlying persuasion mechanism, and the consequences for voters. This paper finds that, even when an interest group always wants the same policy regardless of the state of the world, voters can sometimes benefit from the group’s activity. Furthermore, voters may be best served by a worse (less able or more cynical) policy-maker. This is because a-priori a worse policy-maker will tend to herd on the prior relatively more than a better policy-maker; this will force interest groups to release greater amounts of information in order to change the policy-maker’s mind, which increases the probability that the voters’ best policy is implemented. Ideologically biased policy-makers are not totally undesirable either, for they induce similar incentives to interest groups of opposite ideology.

scholarly journals KAJIAN LITERATUR RESISTENSI DALAM PENGAMBILAN KEBIJAKAN PEMBANGUNAN SERTA USULAN STRATEGI DALAM MENGHADAPI RESISTENSI KEBIJAKAN PEMBANGUNAN OLEH PEMERINTAH KABUPATEN INDRAGIRI HILIR

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Akbar Alfa , Rezky Kinanda
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Policy Maker ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
The Government ◽  
Resistance Movement ◽  
Made In ◽  
Developing Strategies

The Resistance Movement is a movement that is very typical of the rejection of policies or changes made in an area in which there are humans in it. There are two categories of actors involved in the resistance movement, namely the policy maker and the recipient of the policy. The identity of the perpetrators depends on the case and the location of the case which contains different human characteristics or human communities. The research uses literature review as preparation material for the Government of Indragiri Hilir Regency in dealing with resistance movements. This journal is the result of qualitative research which will explain theoretically the resistance movement. Resistance movement is the movement of a party in making a rejection or resistance to the policy to be made or already made. The results of this study can be used as a discussion of Indragiri Hilir Regency Government in making policies and dealing with resistance movements. This research concludes that poor communication and socialization can spark a desire to resist. The resistance movement becomes stronger when the policy maker is unable or slow in responding to the complaints of the recipient of the policy. Regardless of whether the complaint is wrong or right, rapid response must be done quickly so that there is no misunderstanding that causes greater resistance. The policy makers must identify the causes of resistance because the causes are the basic foundation in developing strategies for handling and resolving conflicts in this resistance movement. So that it can be said that each cause has its own handling strategy.

scholarly journals Engaging Politicians with Citizens on Social Networking Sites

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo Wandhöfer ◽  
Steve Taylor ◽  
Harith Alani ◽  
Somya Joshi ◽  
Sergej Sizov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Policy Maker ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Mass Medium ◽  
Technical Feasibility ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Familiar Environment ◽  
The One ◽  
Software Prototype

Governmental policy makers can use social networking sites to better engage with citizens. On the one hand social networking sites are well accepted by citizens and a familiar environment where discussions are already taking place and social networking sites are also more important for politicians. Thus, a need for information retrieval (the policy maker gathering information), dissemination (the policy maker broadcasting information) and two-way dialog between the policy maker and citizens over these platforms. The idea is to connect both the policy makers and the citizens. In fact social media is a mass medium and it’s difficult to sieve through multitudes of comments to get to the crux of a debate. The authors’ approach to address this is to use automatic analysis components to summarise and categorize text. To be able to place successful tools that can be used in the policy maker’s everyday life within the design process is important. This paper describes the phase of combining the policy makers’ requirements with the technical feasibility to develop a software prototype, where the analysis tools can be validated within the domain of policy makers and policymaking. This paper sets up the environment for evaluating this approach and to address the question of usefulness with respect to a dialogue with citizens.

scholarly journals Introduction: Theory and Policy in International Relations

1972 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 3-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Tanter ◽  
Richard H. Ullman
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Policy Maker ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Specialized Training ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Community ◽  
Science Disciplines

It is a commonplace observation—certainly among practicing members of the foreign policy community, but also among academic students of world politics—that policy-makers have seldom given much heed to the writings of theorists on international relations. Particularly in recent years, when academic writing on international relations has grown increasingly technical in nature and more impenetrable to a reader without specialized training in one or more social science disciplines, the theorist as theorist has had little communication with the policy-maker. It is also true that many practitioners, and many from the academic side as well, would tend to agree that, by and large, the policymakers have not missed much.

scholarly journals Attitudinal and Behavioral Consequences of Published Opinion Polls

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Moy ◽  
Eike Mark Rinke
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Policy Maker ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Public Opinion Polls ◽  
Opinion Polls ◽  
Normative Role

It is a truism to speak of the key normative role that public opinion polls play in contemporary democratic societies. Theorists and practitioners have long extolled how polls inextricably link citizens to their elected officials. Indeed, public opinion polls not only offer citizens a mechanism with which to express their sentiment on key issues of the day but also provide policy makers with information about what their constituents might or might not desire. Citizens may be able to express their views on a particular issue through individual acts such as donating money to a cause or writing a letter to the editor of a local newspaper, but along with voting polls are one of the few opportunities that offer the mass public equal voice. Moreover, the role that polls play in the citizen–policy maker relationship hinges upon their dissemination by the mass media.

scholarly journals Ageing and Leisure

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mark William Quinlivan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Policy Maker ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

<p>This research focuses on policy-makers whose agendas impact on the leisure needs of an ageing New Zealand population. It aims to test a hypothesis that such agendas impact negatively on provision for such needs. The theoretical approach is from leisure studies, sociology and social gerontology, although relevant psychological research is also drawn upon. The thesis discusses the development of leisure over time. The findings suggest that the ageing population does not have as many unmet leisure needs as might generally be thought, but that it would welcome an increase in the level of leisure policy-maker involvement in their leisure lives. The findings also suggest a willingness on the part of the leisure policy-makers to focus more deliberate energies on the leisure needs of the ageing population. Arising from an examination of the relationship between active engagement in later life and longevity, a tentative 'Theory of Ageing Actively' is posited.</p>

scholarly journals POLITICAL CONFLICT AND BARGAINING IN A NEW KEYNESIAN MODEL OF FISCAL STABILIZATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-52
Author(s):  
Francesca Flamini ◽  
Campbell Leith
Keyword(s):  
Policy Maker ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
New Keynesian ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Keynesian Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Keynesian Models ◽  
Fiscal Stabilization ◽  
Monetary And Fiscal Policy

Recent work on optimal monetary and fiscal policy in New Keynesian models has tended to focus on policy set by an infinitely lived benevolent policy maker, often with access to a commitment technology. In this paper, we explore deviations from this ideal, by allowing (time-consistent) policy to be set by a process of bargaining between two political players with different weights on elements of the social welfare function. We characterize the (linear) Markov perfect equilibrium and, in a series of numerical examples, we explore the resultant policy response to shocks which cannot be perfectly offset with the available instruments due to their fiscal consequences. We find that, even although the players, on average, have the socially desirable objective function, the process of bargaining implies an outcome which deviates from the time-consistent policy chosen by the benevolent policy maker. Moreover, the range of instruments available mean that policy makers will bargain across the entire policy mix, sometimes implying outcomes which are quite different from those that would be chosen by a single policy maker. These policy outcomes depend crucially on the nature of the conflict and also the level of government debt.

Minimizing the Political/Economic Time Lag for Economic Recovery

1993 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-61
Author(s):  
Seymour Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Policy Maker ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Optimal Time ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Economic Time ◽  
Political Economic

This paper deals with a theoretical analysis about the problem confronting policy makers who are trying to minimize the time to combat a recession. The model contains political and economic lags and a transmission lag that imposes a constraint between the political lag and the economic lag. The task of the policy maker is to minimize the total time spent on the political and economic mediums given the constraint imposed by the transmission lag. The paper concludes that the optimal time spent on any medium will be higher in the more efficient relevant medium.

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