Political Advertising: A Neglected Policy Issue in Marketing

1978 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Rothschild
Keyword(s):  
Policy Issue ◽  
Political Advertising ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Policy Question

The author considers political advertising as a policy question and presents a model to hypothesize some of its effects. Supporting data are used to discuss several policy issues and to raise additional questions in this area.

Policy Issue Substance and the Revitalization of Legislative Studies

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Lapinski
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Legislative Studies ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Vantage Points ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Oriented Research

This chapter seeks to introduce a substance-oriented research program based on policy issues for studying Congress from multiple vantage points. In doing so, it makes serious progress on systematically understanding Theodore Lowi's provocative claim that “policy determines politics,” which, while important, has never been satisfactorily understood, either empirically or theoretically. In advancing a substance-oriented approach to studying policymaking and lawmaking in Congress, the chapter sheds light on several important new tools and ideas to use in determining how policy issue substance matters for lawmaking. These include new data, such as an immense data set on U.S. lawmaking between 1877 to 1994; new and massive measures of political preferences broken down by policy issue areas for U.S. lawmakers spanning the period 1877 to 2010; and fresh approaches to analyzing these new data sets.

scholarly journals Identifying approaches for synthesizing and summarizing information to support informed citizen deliberations in health policy: a scoping review

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G Wilson ◽  
Aditya Nidumolu ◽  
Inna Berditchevskaia ◽  
Francois-Pierre Gauvin ◽  
Julia Abelson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Optimal Strategies ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Stakeholder Perspectives ◽  
Literature Searches ◽  
Citizen Deliberation

Objective Public deliberations are an increasingly popular tool to engage citizens in the development of health policies and programmes. However, limited research has been conducted on how to best synthesize and summarize information on health policy issues for citizens. To begin to address this gap, our aim was to map the literature on the preparation of information to support informed citizen deliberations related to health policy issues. Methods We conducted a scoping review where two reviewers screened the results of electronic database searches, grey literature searches and hand searches of organizational websites to identify empirical studies, scholarly commentaries, and publicly available organizational documents focused on synthesizing and summarizing information to inform citizen deliberation about health policy issues. Two reviewers categorized each included document according to themes/topics of deliberation, purpose of deliberation and the form of deliberation, and developed a summary of the key findings related to synthesizing and summarizing information to support informed citizen deliberations. Results There was limited reporting about whether and how information was synthesized. Evidence was typically organized based on the source used (e.g. by comparing the views of stakeholders or experts) or according to the areas that policymakers need to consider when making decisions (e.g. benefits, harms, costs and stakeholder perspectives related to policy options). Information was presented primarily through written materials (e.g. briefs and brochures), audiovisual resources (e.g. videos or presentations from stakeholders), but some interactive presentation approaches were also identified (e.g. through interactive arts-based approaches). Conclusions The choice and framing of information to inform citizen deliberations about health policy can strongly influence their understanding of a policy issue, and has the potential to impact the discussions and recommendations that emerge from deliberations. Our review confirmed that there remains a dearth of literature describing methods of the preparation of information to inform citizen deliberations about health policy issues. This highlights the need for further exploration of optimal strategies for citizen-friendly approaches to synthesizing and summarizing information for deliberations.

Teaching Biology, Policy Analysis, and Politics in a Biotechnology Policy Course

1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-107
Author(s):  
David J. Webber
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
State Legislators ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Teaching Biology ◽  
Journalism Students

This Political Science course, titled “Policy Issues Surrounding Biotechnology,” set out to describe, explain, and evaluate public policies that regulate and support applications of biotechnology in agriculture and medicine. Only a few students had a basic familiarity with biotechnology and none had a strong science background. Most of the 25 political science and journalism students took the junior-senior level course not because of an interest in biotechnology but because they wanted to study a specific policy issue in some depth. The students jointly prepared a 56-page report and presented it to a panel of Missouri state legislators in a mock legislative hearing in April, 1991.

SEC issues new guidance on excluding shareholder proposals under rule 14a-8

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
John Newell ◽  
Arthur McGivern ◽  
David Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Majority Opinion ◽  
Shareholder Proposals

Purpose To explain SEC Division of Corporation Finance Staff Legal Bulletin No. 14H (SLB 14H), which provides interpretive advice on how the Staff will treat shareholder proposals under the “directly conflicts” and “ordinary business” exclusions under Rule 14a-8. Design/methodology/approach Explains Rule 14-8 concerning the inclusion of shareholder proposals in a company’s proxy materials, Rule 14a-8(i)(9) on substantive bases for exclusion of shareholder proposals, guidance from SLB 14H on shareholder proposals that do and do not directly conflict with company proposals, Staff guidance prior to SLB 14H, the “ordinary business” exclusion under Rule 14a-8(i)(7), and how SEC staff guidance differs from the majority opinion in Trinity Wall Street v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. on the ordinary business exclusion. Findings The SEC Staff’s new standard for conflicting proposals is likely to make it more difficult for companies to exclude a shareholder proposal that is different from a management proposal if the two proposals are not “mutually exclusive”. Staff guidance also states that companies may not exclude proposals focusing on a significant policy issue under the ordinary business exclusion if “the proposals would transcend the day-to-day business matters and raise policy issues so significant that it would be appropriate for a shareholder vote”. Originality/value Expert guidance from experienced securities and financial services lawyers.

scholarly journals Sustainable Tax Policy Through the Lens of Intergenerational Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
New Members ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University ◽  
Policy Question

Professor Lind’s summary of the papers in this issue ably captures the range of topics addressed by the scholars who gathered for our conference at the University of Gävle last year. More importantly, she points out how well the various articles translate into the era of COVID-19. Even though no one could possibly have imagined the changes that we have experienced just since February of 2020, the issues of inequality, environmental degradation, international tax coordination, gender-and race-based unfairness, and so on have become even more important as the world explores how to move forward from this global tragedy. One of my long-term research projects has involved exploring the obligations between generations, in particular the “downward” obligations from older generations to younger generations that determine whether new members of society will thrive in the future.1 It is a source of inspiration but also some frustration that nearly every policy issue can be viewed from an intergenerational perspective—inspiration because it reminds us that all policy decisions have effects (direct and indirect) that carry into the future, but frustration because merely “having an impact in the future” does not necessarily make a policy question ripe for an intergenerational analysis and is thus too broad.

scholarly journals Interest Group Lobbying on a Morality Policy Issue: The Case of Physician-Assisted Suicide in Michigan

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 321-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Strate ◽  
Marvin Zalman
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Physician Assisted Suicide ◽  
Morality Policy ◽  
Policy Issues

Interest group lobbying on morality policy issues differs from lobbying on other kinds of issues. In this paper we use insights from the literature on morality policy politics to examine the lobbying of interest groups in Michigan on the issue of physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Morality policy politics is marked by the greater involvement of citizens groups. Citizens groups advocating policies that are publicly popular engage in disproportionate outside lobbying, but their capacity in this regard may be curtailed because of limited resources. Inside lobbying on morality policy issues focuses especially on getting various kinds of help from sympathetic legislators but does not try to change their opinions.

scholarly journals Issues that mobilize Europe. The role of key policy issues for voter turnout in the 2019 European Parliament election

2021 ◽  
pp. 146511652110403
Author(s):  
Daniela Braun ◽  
Constantin Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
European Elections ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Personal Issue ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
High Turnout ◽  
European Parliament Elections

In light of the unexpectedly high turnout in the 2019 European Parliament election, we explore how major transnational policy issues mobilize voters in European electoral contests. Based on the analysis of two data sets, the Eurobarometer post-election survey and the RECONNECT panel survey, we make three important observations. First, European citizens show a higher tendency to participate in European Parliament elections when they attribute greater importance to the issues ‘climate change and environment’, ‘economy and growth’, and ‘immigration’. Second, having a more extreme opinion on the issue of ‘European integration’ increases people's likelihood to vote in European elections. Third, the mobilizing effect of personal issue importance is enhanced by the systemic salience that the respective policy issue has during the election campaign. These findings show the relevance of issue mobilization in European Parliament elections as well as its context-dependent nature.

scholarly journals Working in unison: Political parties and policy issue transfer in the multilevel space

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Senninger ◽  
Daniel Bischof
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Short Distance ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Dyadic Data ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Unique Data ◽  
Career Incentives ◽  
Supranational Level

In this study, we examine whether and how policy issues addressed by political parties travel across the national and European legislative arena. We define ‘party policy issue transfer’ as the articulation of similar issues in the work of political parties at different parliamentary venues in short distance of time and argue that issues particularly transfer within the same party. This is mainly so for three reasons: exchange of information between parties across levels, national parties’ attempts to influence European Union policies, and career incentives of representatives at the supranational level. We test our theoretical framework using unique data on parliamentary questions asked by Danish representatives (the Folketing and the European Parliament, 1999–2009) and a dyadic data structure. Our results show that parties’ policy issues—in particular those over which the European Union holds legislative power—transfer across the national and European levels on a regular basis and that issues are more likely to travel within parties.

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