scholarly journals Public radio in the United States: does it correct market failure or cannibalize commercial stations?

1999 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven T. Berry ◽  
Joel Waldfogel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Radio ◽  
Correct Market Failure

Redistributive Cooperation: Market Failure, Wealth Transfers, and the Basle Accord

1998 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Oatley ◽  
Robert Nabors
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
International Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Efficient Solutions ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
International Regulation ◽  
Regulatory Status

Theories of international cooperation rely on claims about joint gains to argue that governments create international institutions to mitigate information and enforcement problems and realize efficient solutions. We present a model in which politicians propose international institutions to resolve domestic political dilemmas and suggest that the international institutions they propose are sometimes intentionally redistributive. We apply both approaches to the Basle Accord and conclude that domestic politics rather than international market failure motivated American policymakers to propose international regulation, that through international regulation the United States sought to redistribute income from Japanese to American commercial banks, and that, therefore, the Basle Accord did not offer joint gains. Agreement was reached only after the United States used financial market power to eliminate the regulatory status quo. The Basle Accord is an instance of redistributive cooperation. The case suggests that domestic politics should supplant aggregate benefits in explanations of why governments propose and create international institutions.

scholarly journals The Terrorist Risk Insurance Act of 2002: The Federal Government's Role in Addressing Losses Caused by Terrorism

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Michael P.G. Stinziano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Terrorism Risk ◽  
The Government ◽  
Risk Insurance

In response to problems associated with insuring against the risk of foreign terrorist attacks in the United States, Congress passed The Terrorist Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA) to help solve an availability and affordability crisis in the private marketplace for terrorism risk insurance. TRIA established a temporary three-year federal program that created a risk-sharing mechanism to provide private insurance companies with a tool to manage the allocation of their risk resulting from foreign terrorist attacks. The role of government in helping to provide financial protection from losses not served by private markets is not new, but protecting against terrorism risk is. TRIA and its possible alternatives remain a topic of considerable discussion and debate as our country continues to address the threat of terrorism in the United States. One important element of this analysis is to determine what permanent role, if any, the government should play in providing terrorism risk insurance to address the market failure that occurred after September 11. Another is to explore possible alternatives to the current temporary program.

This American Voice

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-123
Author(s):  
Tom McEnaney
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Radio ◽  
American Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Radio ◽  
The Status ◽  
Cultural Shifts

Over the past seventeen years This American Life has functioned, in part, as an investigation into, and representation and construction of an American voice. Alongside David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, Mike Birbiglia, and the panoply of other odd timbres on the show, Glass’s delivery, pitch, and tone have irked and attracted listeners. Yet what began as a voice on the margins of public radio has become a kind of exemplum for what new radio journalism in the United States sounds like. How did this happen? What can this voice and the other voices on the show tell us about contemporary US audio and radio culture? Can we hear the typicality of that American voice as representative of broader cultural shifts across the arts? And how might author Daniel Alarcón’s Radio Ambulante, which he describes as “This American Life, but in Spanish, and transnational,” alter the status of these American voices, possibly hearing how voices travel across borders to knit together an auditory culture that expands the notion of the American voice?

Alternative Things Considered: A Comparison of National Public Radio and Pacifica Radio News Coverage

1994 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 775-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan G. Stavitsky ◽  
Timothy W. Gleason
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Public Radio ◽  
Public Radio ◽  
Broadcast Journalism ◽  
Radio News ◽  
Commercial Broadcast ◽  
News Programming

This study indicates that National Public Radio and Pacifica, despite their “alternative” origins, produce news programming that is largely grounded in the same journalistic values and routines as “mainstream” commercial broadcast journalism. A content analysis of NPR's All Things Considered and Pacifica Radio News, however, found several significant differences between these two producers of public radio news in the United States. Pacifica broadcast a higher percentage of stories dealing with governance and stories with an international focus, and presented a higher percentage of officials and activists as sources than did NPR.

scholarly journals Typical “Separation” Actions in United States President Donald Trump’s term Under Constitutional law Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pham Quang Huy ◽  
Pham Ngoc Lam Giang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
National Public Radio ◽  
American Government ◽  
Public Radio ◽  
American President ◽  
States Government ◽  
The U.S

The article analyzes some typical “separation “activities of the United States government at the beginning of the presidency of Donald Trump. Hence, the authors comment how the United States governments work nowadays in “separation” theory under constitutional law perspective. Keywords: United States, government, separation.   References: [1] Montesquieu (1996), Tinh thần pháp luật, Nhà xuất bản Giáo dục, Hà Nội.[2] Bộ Ngoại giao Hoa Kỳ, Chương trình thông tin Quốc tế (J W. Peltason biên tập, chú thích), 2004, About America: The Constitution of the United States of America with Explanatory Notes (Nước Mỹ: Hiến pháp Hợp chủng quốc Hoa Kỳ và chú thích), tr 59.[3] The U.S Congress, “Our American Government” 2003 Edition. House Congress Resolution 221 of The U.S Congress 108th, June 20, 2003 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDOC-108hdoc94/pdf/CDOC-108hdoc94.pdf, truy cập ngày 30/3/2020.[4] “Who Is Judge James L. Robart And Why Did He Block Trump's Immigration Order?”, National Public Radio 04/02/2017, https://www.npr.org/2017/02/04/513446463/who-is-judge-james-l-robart-and-why-did-he-block-trumps-immigration-order, truy cập ngày 30/3/2020. [5] Wang, Amy B. “Trump asked for a 'Muslim ban', Giuliani says — and ordered a commission to do it 'legally”. The Washington Post 30/01/2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/29/trump-asked-for-a-muslim-ban-giuliani-says-and-ordered-a-commission-to-do-it-legally/ truy cập ngày 30/3/2020.[6] Selena Simmons Duffin, “Trump Is Trying Hard To Thwart Obamacare. How's That Going?”, National Public Radio 30/3/2020, https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/14/768731628/trump-is-trying-hard-to-thwart-obamacare-hows-that-going, truy cập ngày 30/3/2020.[7] Edwin C. Kisiel III, The Electoral College: Federalism and the Election of the American President, A Senior Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation in the Honors Program Liberty University, 2008 Spring, downloaded from http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=honors truy cập ngày 30/3/2020, pp 16.

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