scholarly journals Strikes and Strike-Breaking in North-East England, 1815–44: The Attitude of The Local Press

1977 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-240
Author(s):  
Maurice Milne
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
The State ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
The Public ◽  
North East ◽  
Public Expression ◽  
Advantageous Position ◽  
Significant Factors

The effectiveness of the strike weapon in early-nineteenth-century England depended in some measure upon the response of public opinion. Obviously the state of trade and the relative cohesion and determination of masters and men were more significant factors, but the attitude of non-participants could not be discounted. The readiness of civil and military authorities to intervene, the reaction of the general public to requests for contributions to relief funds, the willingness of politicians to contemplate changes in the laws concerning combination: all these were influenced by the state of public opinion. It would be an oversimplification to regard “public opinion” and “newspaper opinion” as synonymous. The platform, the pulpit, the placard and the popular song were other means of public expression, not that they necessarily provided a complete or reliable guide to the public mind. Nevertheless the newspaper, particularly in the nineteenth century, was in an advantageous position to influence the response of the public to current controversies.

scholarly journals PUBLIC OPINION ON NOISE DISTURBANCE DUE TO THE ACTIVITIES OF HUSEIN SASTRANEGARA AIRPORT, BANDUNG, INDONESIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Lili Mulyatna ◽  
Yonik Meilawati Yustiani ◽  
Pebby Febrianto
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Noise Level ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
The Public ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Index Value ◽  
Level 2 ◽  
Noise Impacts

Airport is a facility to accommodate arrivals and departures as well as aircraft movements that have the potential to cause noise impacts. This research was conducted to obtain opinions from the public regarding the noise that occurs around Husein Sastranegara Airport, Bandung, Indonesia. In addition, the determination of the airport noise area was also carried out using the Weighted Equivalent Continuous Perceived Noise Level (WECPNL) method. There are 12 measurement points, namely at distances of 100 m, 500 m, and 1500 m in each of the North, East, South, and West directions. Opinions regarding the noise that occurred were obtained from 150 respondents from the community around the airport. The results of the study can be concluded that the highest WECPNL index value is found on the 100 m runway, the WECPNL index value is 76.39, the 500 m distance the WECPNL index value is 62.71, and the 1500 m distance the WECPNL index value is 52.74. The results of the WECPNL index at Husein Sastranegara International Airport Bandung have a level 2 noise area where school buildings and settlements should not be allowed. The results of the interviews show that as many as 54% of respondents feel disturbed by the noise caused by the activities of Husein Sastranegara Airport.

The Bazaar, the State, and the Struggle for Public Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-633
Author(s):  
ALI KARIMI
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Central Place ◽  
The State ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Information Conflict ◽  
Source Of Information

AbstractPublic opinion is formed by the information that the public consumes. The state, whether democratic or authoritarian, employs various media of communication to influence people's opinions and behaviours. In the nineteenth century, Afghan rulers would traditionally use force and religion to gain popular support and strengthen their authority. In the second half of the century, they started to use print technology to build their relationships with the public. The state's print, however, had to compete with the institution of the bazaar that had long served as the central place where information circulated in public. This article, drawing mostly on unexamined Afghan sources, offers an account of how the bazaar operated as a source of information and how the Afghan state tried to suppress it. The history of this information conflict uncovers new aspects in the troublesome relationship between the government and the governed in Afghanistan.

Compensated Motherhood and the State

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Rymph
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Child Welfare Professionals ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Proper Balance

This chapter examines the role of foster parents as workers, an idea rooted in the nineteenth century role of the “boarding mother.” Child Welfare professionals, foster parents, and the public struggled over the proper balance between paying adequate board to foster parents while ensuring that desire to nurture a child remained the paramount motivation. By the 1960s, foster parents began organizing themselves, culminating in the formation of the National Foster Parents Association in 1971.

Evidence of Partisan Agenda Fragmentation in the American Public, 1959–2015

2019 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 749-781
Author(s):  
Mike Gruszczynski
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
The State ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Long Time ◽  
And Shifts

Abstract  This research examines the extent to which partisan agenda fragmentation is occurring within the American public. Though numerous scholars of public opinion and political communication have warned of the deleterious effects of agenda fragmentation, to this point such fragmentation has been demonstrated only across a small number of issues over short periods of time. This research is the first to utilize both a large set of issues and a long time frame to assess the state of partisan agendas from 1959 to 2015 through the use of individual-level Gallup’s “Most Important Problem” polls. Findings show that the public agenda has fragmented on a large number of issues, in terms of both the level of and shifts in attention that partisans accord to issues of the day. Additionally, this research highlights the importance of recent increases in agenda diversity and carrying capacity to fragmentation, demonstrating that while the presence of large, obtrusive issues tends to be associated with correspondence in partisan agendas, the ordering of partisan issue agendas has decoupled substantially in recent decades.

The Atomic Theory of Society

1930 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 628-637
Author(s):  
William Orton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The State ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Atomic Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
House Of Lords

In few affairs is political wisdom so put to the test as in the treatment of institutions that are growing old. Age in these cases has little to do with mere antiquity: the forms of social life are subject to no set term of years. It is a matter of continuing adaptability. Some institutions, like the British monarchy, possess this attribute in an astounding degree. Others, like the House of Lords, betray a hardening of the arteries that bodes ill for their survival in times of rapid change. For the speed of social change affects not only their physical and conceptual environment; it acts also upon, and through, the temper of the politicians and the public. In such periods society will sometimes administer a sudden coup de grâce to its more recalcitrant institutions, abolishing at one stroke both the abuses they have inflicted and the garnered wisdom they enshrine. The loss involved in these moments is seldom evident until long after, when it has to be made good ab ovo.To such moods the Gallic genius is peculiarly liable; and it was in one of them that the French crashed open the gates of the nineteenth century and nailed the atomic theory of society to the lintel. “There are no longer any guilds in the state, but only the private interest of each individual and the general interest. No one may arouse in the citizens any intermediate interest, or separate them from the public weal by corporate sentiment.”

scholarly journals ETHICAL FACTORS IN THE COVERAGE OF STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE NORTH EAST NIGERIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bifatife Olufemi Adeyese, ◽  
Ishola Kamorudeen Lamidi
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Systematic Random Sampling ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Government

This study examines the extent to which the Nigerian journalists comply with ethical values in the course of their reportage. Two national dailies – The Nation and Daily Trust newspapers were selected for content analysis, using systematic random sampling technique to pick 26 editions per newspaper. A period of six months from 14 December 2014 to 14 June, 2015, covering the 4th phase of the state of emergency was chosen. Tables, figures, and sample percentage counts were employed in making the research data easily understandable. The findings revealed that though the newspapers appeared to be ethically compliant in their reportage, none of the two newspapers was neutral in its reportage of the state of emergency rule. Majority of their stories were considered unpleasant and capable of aggravating the crisis in the troubled states. The hypothesis were tested, one showed that there is a significant difference between the number of news stories and the number of ethical breaches in the selected newspapers; hypothesis two showed a significant difference between ethically breaching and ethically standard reports/content of the selected newspapers; hypothesis three showed a significant difference between the ethical breaching of Daily Trust and those of The Nation –X2 = 0.09; P<0.05, df1. The study therefore, recommends that journalists should always have a healthy regard for the public interest, desist from slavish adulation and join hands with the government in bringing about lasting peace to the troubled states and desist from publishing inflammatory stories.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of Implementing the State’s Strategic Narrative based on the Public Opinion

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 48-59
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Voitko ◽  
◽  
Volodymyr Loza ◽  
Hennadii Khudov ◽  
Valentyn Bakhvalov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
The State ◽  
Strategic Communications ◽  
The Public ◽  
Statistical Series ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
Psychological Influence ◽  
Point Forecast

The main purpose of the article is the peculiarities of implementing of the state’s strategic narrative based on the the statistical analysis of the public opinion. The scenarios of the public opinion development are forecasted. The main results are: the graphs of the statistical series of change in public opinion have been constructed; the approximating functions for the trend of change in public opinion have been determined; the parameters of the approximating function have been calculated; a point forecast of the change in public opinion has been made. The main scientific method ia the method of statistical extrapolation. The main results are: to identify the features of the implementation of the strategic narrative of the state system in strategic communications; it is obtained the necessary minimum value of efficiency. This value of efficienct should be achieved by the system of strategic communications, when taking appropriate measures to promote and support of the appropriate course of the state by the population. This result is actually such as in the controlled territory and in the temporarily occupied territories (Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the Crimea). Keywords—strategic narrative, target audience, informational and psychological influence, strategic communications

scholarly journals Public opinion as an institute of direct democracy

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
N.I. Rodzinskyi ◽  
D.S. Savchenko ◽  
M.H. Khaustova
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
State Of Power ◽  
Positive Factor ◽  
Effective Contribution

The article is devoted to the problematic form and pressure of the public opinion. Basic attention is the theoretical aspects of understanding of public opinion as the legal and social phenomenon, as exactly due to a presence or absence of foregoing institute of civil society it is possible to talk about the state and level of democratization of society, taking into account active introduction of processes that provide access and participation of citizens in life of the state. A self concept «public opinion» though has the generalized interpretation and interpretation in a modern kind, however during all way of forming tested quite a bit transformations and modifications. The presence of different conceptions to understanding of the phenomenon of public opinion is first of all explained variety of looks to influence of actors on the origin of public opinion. Scientists in the doctrine of sociology and legal sciences examine public opinion as phenomenon of mass consciousness that has elemental character, a social institute, a social regulator, that brings in the effective contribution to the decisions of question, that touch activity of the state. For today three basic going was formed near understanding of public opinion as social and legal phenomenon – morally-normative that was based on public publicity and openness, approach, that was based not on subject composition, but on thematic, denying here influence of mass character on the process of forming of public opinion and approach demoscopy is fixed in basis of that – research the key aspect of that is realization of analysis of public opinion on the basis of quantitative data. The classic going near understanding of public opinion from the point of view of her nature is conception of V. Lipman, in basis of that influence of environment of existence of individual is fixed on the process of forming of public opinion. In this theory attention is accented on that a human is clearly limited to in informative space the capacity for perception of information, and that is why can not grasp her fully, however this factor plays role of positive factor of forming of public opinion, as it gives an opportunity more deep knowledge in certain industry, creating more organized public opinion that does not limit opinion of every individual here. As well as on any institute of direct democracy on public opinion certain functions – expressive, consultative, directive functions. Due to realization of foregoing functions public opinion there is cooperating of public with organs by the state of power, that it is counted on formation of original symbiosis, the aim of that is creation of positive terms for life of citizens, increase of level of democratization in society, to improve quality and efficiency of realization of the functions fixed on them power within the framework of legislation.

Gold and the Public in the Nineteenth-Century Gold Rushes

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-87
Author(s):  
David Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Good ◽  
The State ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Private Benefits ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Electoral Defeat

In the great nineteenth-century British world cycle of gold rushes, individualist wealth seeking became associated with democratic politics, and views about the public rather than private benefits of gold became increasingly the preserve of conservatives. In Georgia, governor George Gilmer declared in 1830 that the gold diggers were “appropriating riches to themselves, which of right equally belong to every other citizen of the state,” but he soon suffered electoral defeat. In 1850s California and Australia, individual miners were rapidly associated with a democratic and egalitarian future, even with the public good. This helps explain the oddly uncontested decisions to allow mining on public—and, in many places, private—land and use of public resources such as timber and water. This chapter is by David Goodman.

Domains of Contagion and Confinement

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guenter B. Risse
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Epidemic Outbreak ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Potential Exposure ◽  
The Public

This chapter maps out the sites of contagion and confinement in nineteenth-century California. Each epidemic outbreak offers a unique blend of environmental circumstances, biological agencies, and cultural contexts that shape not only public opinion but also medical beliefs and measures. To counteract the nefarious effects of contagion, past societies developed several responses, all of which were geared toward detaining people already displaying signs of sickness and temporarily holding those suspected of potential exposure to the identified scourge. Thus the chapter considers how the public coped with contagion and the “miasma” of disease primarily by isolating the disease via scapegoating, quarantining—among others.

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