Advocacy for intergroup contact: Science service public policy debate in the UK: Promoting the Policy Implications of Theory and Research on Intergroup Contact: Confessions of My Temporary Escape from the Ivory Tower

Food waste is a global sustainability issue that demands several stakeholders to participate in solving it. This article examines how different food system stakeholders are held responsible in the policy debate related to food waste reduction. The study adopts a framing approach, paying attention to the construction and negotiation of what is going on in the food waste related public policy debate. The data consist of documents generated as a result of food policy development processes in Finland. The authors identify four framings: eco-efficiency, solidarity, safety and appreciation. Within each framing, the issue of food waste is presented differently, and different stakeholders are responsibilized. The framings reveal the nature of food waste as a boundary object, a flexible and open-ended object that gains different context-dependent meanings. The study extends marketing literature on responsibilization by investigating several stakeholders besides consumers. Additionally, considering food waste as a boundary object unravels how stakeholders, even those with conflicting interests, can debate policy measures collaboratively. Finally, the authors outline policy implications related to each framing.

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Review: HM Treasury and Productivity in the UK

Competition & Change ◽

10.1080/1024529032000146713 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 7 (2-3) ◽

pp. 149-161

Author(s):

Jim Tomlinson

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

International Political Economy ◽

Historical Background ◽

Policy Debate ◽

Central Theme ◽

Comparative Performance ◽

The Core ◽

The Uk ◽

National Economies ◽

Public Policy Debate

A central theme of international political economy is the comparative performance of national economies and the determinants thereof. In the debate over such performance ‘productivity’ has emerged a key term, and this paper is concerned with the way in which that term has been deployed in public policy debate in the UK. Its focus is on the ‘New Labour’ period (since 1997), in which the term has been central to the economic agenda of government. However, it is a term which has long been important in the lexicon of British social democracy, and this historical background is discussed here as a preliminary to treatment of the more contemporary material. The core argument of the paper is that the formulation of the productivity issue, and related terms like the ‘productivity gap,’ is both conceptually and statistically highly problematic, and forms an extremely insecure basis for the pursuit of public policy on the economy.

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Sustainable Consumer Tax Evasion Theory under Information Inattention

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13020562 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 562

Author(s):

Bodo Herzog

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Tax Evasion ◽

Detection Probability ◽

Policy Instruments ◽

Tax Rates ◽

Policy Debate ◽

Income Levels ◽

Theory Of Information ◽

Financial Penalty ◽

Public Policy Debate

This article studies the renewed interest surrounding sustainable public finance and the topic of tax evasion as well as the new theory of information inattention. Extending a model of tax evasion with the notion of inattention reveals novel findings about policy instruments that can be used to mitigate tax evasion. We show that the attention parameters regarding tax rates, financial penalty schemes and income levels are as important as the level of the detection probability and the financial penalty incurred. Thus, our theory recommends the enhancement of sustainability in public policy, particularly in tax policy. Consequently, the paper contributes both to the academic and public policy debate.

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