scholarly journals In trust we trust: The impact of trust in government on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic

2022 ◽  
pp. 095207672110580
Author(s):  
Bishoy Louis Zaki ◽  
Francesco Nicoli ◽  
Ellen Wayenberg ◽  
Bram Verschuere
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forward myriad challenges to public policy, central of which is understanding the different contextual factors that can influence the effectiveness of policy responses across different systems. In this article, we explore how trust in government can influence the ability of COVID-19 policy responses to curb excess mortality during the pandemic. Our findings indicate that stringent policy responses play a central role in curbing excess mortality. They also indicate that such relationship is not only influenced by systematic and structural factors, but also by citizens’ trust in government. We leverage our findings to propose a set of recommendations for policymakers on how to enhance crisis policymaking and strengthen the designs of the widely used underlying policy learning processes.

Network Segregation and Policy Learning

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Douglas Henry
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Network Ties ◽  
Important Concept ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Successes And Failures

Learning is an important concept in the study of public policy and covers a range of actions where evidence is used to shape and improve decisions, including using science to inform responses to problems; adjusting policy based on successes and failures; and forming new beliefs about salient issues, their causes, and appropriate solutions. Network concepts are central to theoretical treatments of learning. Three assumptions are often made about networks and their role in learning processes: (1) most policy networks exhibit segregation, in the sense that network ties tend to exist among actors with shared traits, such as belief systems or institutional affiliations; (2) segregated networks inhibit policy learning; and (3) network segregation is a result of homophily. This chapter reviews the rich literature underlying each of these propositions and shows that the relationships between networks and learning are more complex than often assumed.

For the sake of the children? Children, domestic violence and public policy

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Suellen Murray ◽  
Anastasia Powell
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Specialist Services ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Discursive Constructions

More attention than ever before is being paid to children in Australian public policy concerned with domestic violence. In family law and in the areas of child protection, policing and in the provision of specialist services, there is recognition that children are affected by domestic violence. Yet the ‘discovery’ of the impact of domestic violence on children and the development of public policy responses have not been straightforward processes of problem identification and solution. Rather, there are a number of competing discourses which underlie various policy approaches. Drawing on Bacchi’s (1999) ‘what’s the problem represented to be?’ approach, we examine the discursive constructions of children’s experiences of domestic violence and the responses to them as evident in Australian public policy. In identifying these particular understandings, and considering the implications of these meanings for current policy and practice, we aim to contribute to debate on the future direction of domestic violence policy concerned with children.

Confusion and Reality in Public Policy: The Case of the British Urban Programme

1978 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McKay ◽  
Andrew Cox
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Urban Problem ◽  
Policy Direction ◽  
The Impact

The paper concentrates on the realization of an inner city or urban problem in British politics in the mid-1960s. Rejecting the conventional explanation of the resultant ‘urban programme’ as solely the consequence of Labour reactions to Enoch Powell's ‘rivers of blood’ speech in 1968, the paper assesses the utility of a number of explanations for the gestation and ultimate shape of this new policy direction. Interest-group, elite and Marxist interpretations are also rejected, while amorphous academic ideas and bureaucratic domination of an embryonic policy agenda are offered as the two most plausible explanations of the subsequent shape of the ‘urban programme’. The paper concludes with an assessment of the impact of poorly conceived policy responses in generating more viable alternatives.

scholarly journals The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses on Excess Mortality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virat Agrawal ◽  
Jonathan Cantor ◽  
Neeraj Sood ◽  
Christopher Whaley
Keyword(s):  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Economic and sociocultural poverty in drug abuse: from individual to sociopolitical responsibility

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 820-833
Author(s):  
Ana Erika Oliveira Galvão ◽  
Luísa Saavedra ◽  
Miguel Cameira
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
General Public ◽  
Drug Addicts ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Potential Drug ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Research on drug abuse has often ignored users’ own opinions and perceptions about their addiction. In this study, we wanted to hear their voice on the reasons and motives why they engaged in drug abuse, and on the consequences this behavior had on their lives. Data were collected in Portugal from interviews with fifteen people under treatment for addictive behavior relative to alcohol and illegal drugs. The interviews were analyzed through Thematic Analysis and revealed the existence of several structural factors impacting on the lives of the participants, namely, gender discrimination, poor schooling, socioeconomic marginalization and exclusion associated to insufficient and inadequate public policies. The action of more symbolic structural factors - for instance, their widespread beliefs on drug addiction as a result of free will - through its internalization by families, friends and by addicts themselves, became visible in interviewees’ narratives, in which the rejection by close ones, as well as their own feelings of guilt, sadness and self-disapproval, are prominent features. As a conclusion, we call attention to the need for an integrated public policy in the educational, health and justice areas, and the implementation of awareness-raising actions aimed at the general public, in order to attenuate the impact of structural factors on the lives of current and potential drug addicts.

scholarly journals Excess mortality during COVID-19 in five European countries and a critique of mortality data analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Félix-Cardoso ◽  
H. Vasconcelos ◽  
P. Pereira Rodrigues ◽  
R. Cruz-Correia
Keyword(s):  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Surveillance Data ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Seasonal Time Series ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mortality Surveillance

AbstractINTRODUCTIONThe COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing event disrupting lives, health systems, and economies worldwide. Clear data about the pandemic’s impact is lacking, namely regarding mortality. This work aims to study the impact of COVID-19 through the analysis of all-cause mortality data made available by different European countries, and to critique their mortality surveillance data.METHODSEuropean countries that had publicly available data about the number of deaths per day/week were selected (England and Wales, France, Italy, Netherlands and Portugal). Two different methods were selected to estimate the excess mortality due to COVID19: (DEV) deviation from the expected value from homologue periods, and (RSTS) remainder after seasonal time series decomposition. We estimate total, age- and gender-specific excess mortality. Furthermore, we compare different policy responses to COVID-19.RESULTSExcess mortality was found in all 5 countries, ranging from 10.6% in Portugal (DEV) to 98.5% in Italy (DEV). Furthermore, excess mortality is higher than COVID-attributed deaths in all 5 countries.DISCUSSIONThe impact of COVID-19 on mortality appears to be larger than officially attributed deaths, in varying degrees in different countries. Comparisons between countries would be useful, but large disparities in mortality surveillance data could not be overcome. Unreliable data, and even a lack of cause-specific mortality data undermine the understanding of the impact of policy choices on both direct and indirect deaths during COVID-19. European countries should invest more on mortality surveillance systems to improve the publicly available data.

scholarly journals Evidence from Supervisory Measures for Bank Lending and Npls Control During COVID 19 Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 223-237
Author(s):  
Rosaria Cerrone
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Loan Portfolios ◽  
The Future ◽  
Loan Terms ◽  
Earnings Reduction ◽  
The Impact

The highest impact of Covid-19 crisis on banks is related to their loan portfolios where many borrowers are facing sharp collapse in their income, and difficulty in repaying their obligations. Regulatory and supervisory authorities have issued statements or guidelines to banks on how to deal with the impact of the outbreak, including relation to easing loan terms and conditions for impacted borrowers. This paper aims to provide some policy views on the appropriate response to Covid-19. Supervisors and regulators should play an integral part contributing to public policy responses to the pandemic. Consistent with their mandate of ensuring safety and soundness, supervisors’ action requires a balancing act where banks are encouraged to restructure loans and use the flexibility embedded in the prudential framework by financing viable firms. This paper presents the state of arts and some considerations about the future banks’ conditions facing NPLs increase and their earnings reduction.

The ‘Modernisation’ of Scotland and its Impact on Glasgow, 1955–1979: ‘Unwanted Side Effects’ and Vulnerabilities

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chik Collins ◽  
Ian Levitt
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact

This article reports findings of research into the far-reaching plan to ‘modernise’ the Scottish economy, which emerged from the mid-late 1950s and was formally adopted by government in the early 1960s. It shows the growing awareness amongst policy-makers from the mid-1960s as to the profoundly deleterious effects the implementation of the plan was having on Glasgow. By 1971 these effects were understood to be substantial with likely severe consequences for the future. Nonetheless, there was no proportionate adjustment to the regional policy which was creating these understood ‘unwanted’ outcomes, even when such was proposed by the Secretary of State for Scotland. After presenting these findings, the paper offers some consideration as to their relevance to the task of accounting for Glasgow's ‘excess mortality’. It is suggested that regional policy can be seen to have contributed to the accumulation of ‘vulnerabilities’, particularly in Glasgow but also more widely in Scotland, during the 1960s and 1970s, and that the impact of the post-1979 UK government policy agenda on these vulnerabilities is likely to have been salient in the increase in ‘excess mortality’ evident in subsequent years.

Women's rural-urban migration in Lebanon

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sally N. Youssef
Keyword(s):  
Internal Migration ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Rural Urban Migration ◽  
Low Income Women ◽  
The Impact

Women’s sole internal migration has been mostly ignored in migration studies, and the concentration on migrant women has been almost exclusively on low-income women within the household framework. This study focuses on middleclass women’s contemporary rural-urban migration in Lebanon. It probes into the determinants and outcomes of women’s sole internal migration within the empowerment framework. The study delves into the interplay of the personal, social, and structural factors that determine the women’s rural-urban migration as well as its outcomes. It draws together the lived experiences of migrant women to explore the determinants of women’s internal migration as well as the impact of migration on their expanded empowerment.

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