The use of evidence in public debates in the media: the case of Swiss direct-democratic campaigns in the health policy sector

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Stucki
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Policy Sector ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Media

The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Stöckl ◽  
Anna Smajdor
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Vaccine Scares

This chapter discusses the MMR vaccination controversy in the UK following the publication of a paper in Lancet which linked the MMR triple jab to childhood autism. We discuss the response of the British media to the paper’s claims, and its subsequent retraction, and the way that the actions of the then Prime Minister contributed to the debates. We analysed media reports from that time and draw on policy papers on science communication in order to show how a combination of events before and after the publication of Wakefield’s paper influenced public debates on science, trust and personal responsibility for health protection, and thus also had an impact on public health policy making. We follow a historical thread on actions of public figures on health policy issues and situate the debate in the context of British science policy in general to better understand vaccine controversies and debates in the British context.

Entering history? Archaeologists as intellectuals à la recherche du temps perdu

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Schlanger
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Creation

AbstractFollowing some comments on the notion of ‘public’ intellectuals (can they be otherwise?), this brief paper focuses on the intellectual roles that could be played by archaeologists today. Exposure to the media, usually following some spectacular discovery, serves to confirm the romantico-empirical image of the discipline, but should also lead to an engagement with key public debates. Three such debates are indicated: the idea that ‘African man has yet to enter history’ as expressed by the former French president; the creation of a Maison de l'histoire de France under the tutelage of the Ministry of National Identity; and, across the Channel, the Localism Bill, which pushes decision making to an untenably low level while promoting a historically and archaeologically questionable view of local communities.

scholarly journals Policy programme cycles through old and new programmatic groups

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Nils C. Bandelow ◽  
Johanna Hornung
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
Policy Sector ◽  
German Health ◽  
Policy Goals

Abstract This article draws on the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) to tackle the question of how the dominance and decline of a specific policy programme in a policy sector can be explained. It starts from the observation that visionary policy programmes, defined as a set of policy goals and instruments that find their expression in subsequently adopted and interconnected policy reforms, may shape a sector’s policies over several decades. Linking policy programmes to programmatic groups that promote these programmes in search of boosting their careers and authority, the programme’s rising and declining dominance can be explained by the career trajectories of programmatic actors. By displaying empirical evidence for the argument from German health policy, the article shows that proponents of today’s change are opponents of tomorrow’s change since individual careers depend on the dominance of policy programmes.

A Public Trial De Novo

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 506-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Bjørn Vedel ◽  
Christopher Gad
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Large Research ◽  
Research Grant

This article addresses the concept of “industrial interests” and examines its role in a topical controversy about a large research grant from a private foundation, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, to the University of Copenhagen. The authors suggest that the debate took the form of a “public trial” where the grant and close(r) intermingling between industry and public research was prosecuted and defended. First, the authors address how the grant was framed in the media. Second, they redescribe the case by introducing new “evidence” that, because of this framing, did not reach “the court.” The article ends with a discussion of some implications of the analysis, including that policy making, academic research, and public debates might benefit from more detailed accounts of interests and stakes.

scholarly journals Bridging Research, Public Debates, and Policies on Migration and Integration

2019 ◽  
pp. 241-254
Author(s):  
Joakim Palme ◽  
Martin Ruhs ◽  
Kristof Tamas
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Theoretical Analyses

Based on the conceptual framework of the three-way relationships between research, public debates, and policy-making, this chapter identifies key insights and lessons that can be learnt from the diversity of national and international experiences discussed in the previous chapters. The chapter draws on the theoretical analyses and case studies to make a number of recommendations for researchers, policy practitioners, and other participants in public debates to help strengthen the links between them. We argue that when linking research to public debates and policy-making on integration and migration, actors need to recognize different national and institutional contexts in order to be effective. Engaging the media carefully and strategically is critical for success. Where research is conducted in response to specific policy questions, it is critical for the credibility and impact of the research that it remains independent. When the different actors contributing to research, public debates, and policy-making understand and appreciate each other’s constraints, such common understandings can pave the way for improved policy-making processes and better public policies that deal more effectively with the real challenges of migration and integration.

scholarly journals Strategi Pemenangan Pasangan Calon Herman Deru Dan Mawardi Yahya Pada Pilkada Sumatera Selatan Tahun 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Maharani Maharani
Keyword(s):  
Winning Strategy ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Organizational Strategy ◽  
The South ◽  
Program Strategy ◽  
Institutional Strategy ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Winning Strategies ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Media

Election of Regional Heads of South Sumatra Province has been held in 2018 with 4 pairs of candidates participated and won by the couple Herman Deru and Mawardi Yahya. The interesting thing from this research is that there has been intense competition between the four Paslon. Where each candidate, previously served as regional head in several districts in South Sumatra. The victory of this couple did not escape the winning strategy that they have implemented. The problem discussed in this study is how the process of the campaign implemented by Herman Deru and Mawardi Yahya in the South Sumatra Regional Election in 2018 and what the winning strategy used by the Paslon. The researcher uses the strategy theory from Kotten where in this theory it is stated that there are 4 types of winning strategies namely organizational strategy, program strategy, resource strategy, and institutional strategy. This type of research is a qualitative descriptive study. Methods of collecting data from this study through interviews, observation, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that of the 4 types of winning strategies as proposed by Kotten, the four strategies have been implemented by the couple Herman Deru and Mawardi Yahya. The strategy they use is different from the strategies used by other partners such as organizational strategy. Specifically in the program section and how to campaign through social media. And there are 4 stages of the campaign process set by the South Sumatra KPU in the South Sumatra Regional Election in the 2018-2023 period, namely public debates, distribution of campaign materials, installation of campaign props, and campaign advertisements in the media.

Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Health Care Environment ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Care Environment ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Patient Agency ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Specific Health

Amidst ongoing debate about health care reform, the need for informed analyses of U.S. health policy is greater than ever. The twelve original essays in this volume show that common public debates bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care. Integrating perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and public health, the contributors illuminate the relationships between justice and health inequalities to complicate and enrich debates often dominated by simplistic narratives. Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice: New Conversations Across the Disciplines grounds key conceptual discussions in timely case studies and policy analyses that explore three overarching questions: (1) how do scholars approach relations between health inequalities and ideals of justice; (2) when do justice considerations inform solutions to health inequalities, and how do specific health inequalities affect perceptions of injustice; and (3) how can diverse scholarly approaches contribute to better health policy. From addressing patient agency in an inequitable health care environment to examining how scholars of social justice and health care amass evidence, this volume combines the skills and sensibilities of diverse scholars to promote a richer understanding of health and justice and the successful paths to their realization.

scholarly journals Media Studies’ Approach In “The Crowd” Problems

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phan Van Kien ◽  
Vu Hoang Long
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Affect Studies ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media

In this article, we aim to analyze particular conditions of the media landscape in recent days Vietnam – which is characterized by the domination of mass media and social media in constituting public opinions – that significantly affect collective actions from the online citizens. By using the concept “collective actions”, we design to reconceptualize the concept of “the crowd” which is used commonly to assert the detrimental effects of online citizens’ actions toward heated public debates nowadays. Through the framework of media and journalism studies, we suppose that the contemporary media landscape is not the same as the social situation in approximately 150 years ago when Western scholars first used this concept. Moreover, we intend to provide the framework of Affect Studies in approaching online citizens’ practices that considerably influences the field of media studies in particular and Social Sciences and Humanities in general.

scholarly journals Swedish Advocacy Think Tanks as News Sources and Agenda- Setters

Politik ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigurd Allern ◽  
Ester Pollack
Keyword(s):  
Relative Strength ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Media

The topic of this paper is the media visibility of Swedish advocacy think tanks, as measured by references to these think tanks in leading Swedish print newspapers. Advocacy think tanks are, in contrast with more research-oriented think tanks, characterised by their outspoken ideological and political agenda. In public debates, they often have a partisan role. Four research questions will be answered: How often are these advocacy think tanks referred to in the news? How important are they as commentators and opinion-makers? How are they presented as sources in the news? What is the relative strength of market-liberal and right-wing think tanks versus red/green think tanks, in terms of media representation and agenda-setting?The selection criteria, type of newspapers, and time period used in this study of Swedish advocacy think tanks have been coordinated with parallel, national think tank studies by media researchers in Denmark, Norway, and Finland. Several changes in the think tank landscape took place after the turn of the millennium, which motivated us to select two full newspaper years, 2006 and 2013, to better cover these developments. To gain a deeper understanding of the think tanks’ backgrounds, their cooperation with other think tanks, and their media strategies, we conducted background interviews with representatives from four advocacy think tanks. We met with Karin Svanborg-Sjövall, CEO of Timbro; Boa Ruthström, CEO of Arena Idé, and Maja Dahl, communication manager of Arena Idé; Mattias Goldmann, CEO of Fores; and Daniel Suhonen, the leader of Katalys.

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