Policy analysis in the media: the coverage of public issues and the relevance of context

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Alejandro Guerrero ◽  
Monica Luengas Restrepo ◽  
Carlos Fuentes Ochoa ◽  
Martha Lizbeth Palacios
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
The Media

Media are key actors in supporting a pluralistic and healthy public life. Greater media autonomy and professionalism imply a balanced coverage of issues based upon diverse and contrasted sources. Thus, for covering different aspects of public affairs and policy in consolidated democracies it may be possible to expect the existence of investigative cabinets within media organizations. In the case of Mexico, by contrasting two theoretical models –Agenda-Setting and Indexing—to compare the coverage of three public policy cases with three investigative journalism stories in a group of print, broadcast and Web-based media, this chapter provides answers to the following questions: Are the media more autonomous and professional in their coverage of public issues? Are there any differences according to the type of media –print, broadcast or web? Does their coverage of public issues reflect the work of specialized investigative cabinets?

Public policy and media in Turkey

2018 ◽  
pp. 255-270
Author(s):  
Başak Yavçan ◽  
Hakan Övünç Ongur
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Issue Area ◽  
Governmental Power ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Outlet ◽  
Turkish Case

This chapter addresses the different roles played by the mass media in its relationship with policymaking within the Turkish case, including agenda-setting, framing and the panoptical reflected by public policy. Based on Pierre Bourdieu's field theory, this chapter demonstrates that media as a semi-autonomous field can reflect and refract public policy with respect to varying conditions and argues in particular that this role depends on the level of consolidation of the governmental power, the ideological positioning of the media outlet, and the issue area under discussion. Methodologically, a template is established for a media content analysis of the Turkish media and its role in policymaking. This template has been implemented by collecting data across five different Turkish newspapers between 1995-2013 as a framework for future studies and the analysis confirms the expectations.

Canadian legislatures, public policy and policy analysis

2018 ◽  
pp. 211-232
Author(s):  
Ted Glenn
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Parliamentary System ◽  
Public Policy Process ◽  
Government Work ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Canadian Public Policy

This chapter aims to clarify the roles that legislatures play in Canadian public policy and its analysis by looking at the institution as it functions in the country’s parliamentary system of government. The chapter begins by describing the four core functions that legislatures perform in Canada’s parliamentary system, namely making government, making government work, making government behave, and making alternative governments. The chapter then explains how and where these functions fit into the public policy process, most significantly in the agenda-setting, implementation and evaluation stages. The chapter concludes with some thoughts on what this fresh perspective on Canadian legislatures and public policy offers for policy analysis in this country.

scholarly journals Political Agenda Setting in the Hybrid Media System: Why Legacy Media Still Matter a Great Deal

2020 ◽  
pp. 194016122092502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Ines Langer ◽  
Johannes B. Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Media System ◽  
Hybrid Dynamics ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government

This article examines the roles of the media in the process of political agenda setting. There is a long tradition of studies on this topic, but they have mostly focused on legacy news media, thus overlooking the role of other actors and the complex hybrid dynamics that characterize contemporary political communication. In contrast, through an in-depth case study using mixed-methods and multiplatform data, this article provides a detailed analysis of the roles and interactions between different types of media and how they were used by political and advocacy elites. It explores what happened in the different parts of the system, and thus the paths to attention that led to setting this issue in the political and media agendas. The analysis of the case, a partial policy reversal in the United Kingdom provoked by an immigration scandal known as the “Windrush scandal” reveals that the issue was pushed into the agenda by a campaign assemblage of investigative journalism, political and advocacy elites, and digitally enabled leaders. The legacy news media came late but were crucial. They greatly amplified the salience of the issue and, once in “storm mode,” they were key for sustaining attention and pressure, eventually compelling the government to respond. It shows that they often remain at the core of the “national conversation” and certainly in the eye of a media storm. In the contemporary context, characterized by fierce battles for attention, shortening attention spans and fractured audiences, this is key and has important implications for agenda setting and beyond.

Policy Analysis in the United States

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media ◽  
National Governments

Policy Analysis in the United States brings together contributions from some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners of public policy analysis including Beryl Radin, David Weimer, Rebecca Maynard, Laurence Lynn, and Guy Peters. This volume is part of the International Library of Policy Analysis series, enabling scholars to compare cross-nationally concepts and practices of public policy analysis in the media, sub-national governments, and many more institutional settings. The book explores the current landscape of public policy in the US, its breadth and complexities, and the role of policy analysis. It highlights the role and importance of policy analysis in the present, especially in the context of “alternative facts”, as well as looking at the evolution of the discipline over time. It examines policy analysis from local to national levels, and includes specific chapters examining how public policies and policy analysis have been shaped by, and shapes, public opinion, the American political landscape, the media, public and private sectors, higher education, and more. It includes an examination of how the academic fields of policy training and policy analysis are changing, and how policy analysis as a discipline, which started in the US, has grown and developed internationally.

Media discourses on the economy in Ireland: framing the policy possibilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 249-262
Author(s):  
Brendan K. O’Rourke
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Discursive Power ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Policy Discourses

Chapter Seventeen argues that a discursive approach can add much to our understanding of what has happened in policy analysis in Ireland. The concept of hyper-specialization is introduced as an important feature of the context in which policy discourse takes place, and shows the complexities discourses face as they travel across societies. Policy relevant discourses of media, and actors within the media, are examined, along with what recent developments mean for Irish public policy discourse. An important factor is how such policy discourses are internationalised in Ireland and the impact of that complication on participation in policy debates is examined. Further complexities include the effects of technocratization and economization on how we discuss policy. The chapter concludes that the discursive power of economists remains an important feature of our policy discourses.

The Policymaking Process

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Rajesh Chakrabarti ◽  
Kaushiki Sanyal
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
The Media ◽  
Law Making

This introductory chapter is a scene setter, aimed at public policy scholars and practitioners alike. It provides an outline and brief description of the book and provides a background for its subject matter. It provides a dipstick literature review of the existing literature on social movements and external influences on the policy process. It summarizes the key theoretical models of policy making in the international literature for understanding the policy process and provides a brief review of the policy making process in India, as well as a description, in some detail, of the various stages of law-making in the country. The exposition of the various stages of law-making provides an overview of the influence that various stakeholders in the policy process—the media, judiciary, civil society, and so on—can exert in the process.

scholarly journals Who Leads? Who Follows? Measuring Issue Attention and Agenda Setting by Legislators and the Mass Public Using Social Media Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 883-901 ◽  
Author(s):  
PABLO BARBERÁ ◽  
ANDREU CASAS ◽  
JONATHAN NAGLER ◽  
PATRICK J. EGAN ◽  
RICHARD BONNEAU ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Us Congress ◽  
Issue Attention ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

Are legislators responsive to the priorities of the public? Research demonstrates a strong correspondence between the issues about which the public cares and the issues addressed by politicians, but conclusive evidence about who leads whom in setting the political agenda has yet to be uncovered. We answer this question with fine-grained temporal analyses of Twitter messages by legislators and the public during the 113th US Congress. After employing an unsupervised method that classifies tweets sent by legislators and citizens into topics, we use vector autoregression models to explore whose priorities more strongly predict the relationship between citizens and politicians. We find that legislators are more likely to follow, than to lead, discussion of public issues, results that hold even after controlling for the agenda-setting effects of the media. We also find, however, that legislators are more likely to be responsive to their supporters than to the general public.

scholarly journals A brief look on Agenda - setting theory nowadays

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Fernanda Ferreira ◽  
Marceli Silva ◽  
Rafiza Barão
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Initial Hypothesis ◽  
Ethical Role ◽  
The Media ◽  
Setting Theory ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

Professor Maxwell McCombs began his career as a journalist in the 1960s, as a reporter for the New Orleans Times. A decade later, McCombs, in partnership with Donald Shaw, developed one of his major theories -the agenda-setting hypothesis, now considered a theory, which reflects on the influence of the mass media in relation to public affairs. In the 1980s, McCombs became a professor in the Journalism Department at the University of Texas. In this interview, we seek to recover the basis of the Agenda-setting theory and confront the initial hypothesis with the contemporary scenario and the advent of the internet, contextualizing particularities of Brazilian politics and electoral process and seeking to reflect on the possibility of scheduling different media, especially TV. McCombs was emphatic in saying that the media agenda plays an important ethical role "to use time and space for important topics and not fun topics"

scholarly journals Naujosios žiniasklaidos vaidmuo sudarant darbotvarkę Baltarusijoje

2012 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Victor Martinovich
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Policy Theory ◽  
Setting Process ◽  
Specific Morphology ◽  
The Media ◽  
Basic Characteristics

The role of the new media in agenda setting in BelarusVictor Martinovich SummaryThe author starts with defining the nature of the political regime that acts in Belarus, providing a list of the key features that are important for media behaviour. The list is extracted from the relevant comparative researches focused on Belarus. After describing the regime as a set of rules for the media, the text then proceeds to the specific morphology of the Belarussian new media that do not comply with the basic characteristics proposed by media researchers and thus can be recognized as old media restructured to meet the ethics and principles of the Internet. Then the author deals with the agenda setting process in Belarus and proposes his own interpretation of the classical logistics of this process in specific Belarussian circumstances where the list of power-bearing actors is dramatically reduced. The paper is finalized with showing the new possibilities that the media as an actor of public policy have obtained in the agenda setting after appearance of Web 2.0 when sites the have been re-structured on the basis of the user-generated content which helps to retrieve the media’s autonomy and possibilities to influence the agenda setting.Key words: public policy theory, new media, agenda-setting process, political regimes

(Re)producing cultural narratives on women in public affairs programmes in Uganda

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-311
Author(s):  
Emilly Comfort Maractho
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Affirmative Action Policy ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
Public Affairs Programming

Ugandan women have made tremendous strides in public life, and hold strategic positions in politics and policy-making. This increased participation in public life is attributed to Uganda’s focused pro-women constitution and affirmative action policy. In spite of this progress, women’s visibility and voice remain limited in public affairs programming in Uganda. The article examines how mass media reproduce cultural narratives that affect women in Uganda. It is part of a larger study on representation, interaction and engagement of women and broadcast media in Uganda. It is framed within critical theory, in particular feminist thought, cultural studies and public sphere theory. The research is conducted using a multi-method approach that encompasses case study design, content analysis and grounded theory. The findings suggest that the media reproduce cultural narratives through programming that mirror traditional society view of women and exclude women’s political and public narratives. The interactive and participatory public affairs programming is increasingly important for democratic participation. While men actively engage with such programming, women have failed to utilize it for the mobilization of women, reconstruction of gender stereotypes and producing new argumentation that challenge problematic cultural narratives that dominate media and society.

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