Conclusion: Shifting the Social Norm toward the Public Interest

2020 ◽  
pp. 272-288
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Social Norm ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social

Die Privilegierung der Landwirtschaft

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
General Public ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Debate

Even in an industrialised and service-based economy, agriculture is and remains a sector that is particularly worthy of protection and that operates not only in its own interest, but also in the interest of the general public. However, the social debate shows that the advantages and disadvantages of agriculture are not balanced on every farm. The study deals with the public interest in the privileged treatment of agriculture, i.e. the question of what justifies the special treatment of agriculture and what is "agriculture" in this sense.

Reflections on the Accounting Framework of Public Interest Cooperatives in Portugal

2018 ◽  
pp. 433-445
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Bandeira ◽  
Deolinda Meira ◽  
Brízida Tomé
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Object ◽  
Current Accounting ◽  
The Social

The purpose of this chapter is to determine whether the current accounting standards of public interest cooperatives in Portugal are adequate, taking into account the social object, particularly the pursuit of furthering public interest and the nature of the subjects that integrate it. Thus, through the methodology of content analysis, the authors analyze the various policies and accounting legislation as well as the literature available on this topic. Through the classification and analysis of the main characteristics of these cooperatives, the authors conclude that they should be subject to the Public Administration's accounting regime in order to respond to the needs of different users of information.

scholarly journals The Social Determinants of Conspiratorial Ideation

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 237802311668979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph DiGrazia
Keyword(s):  
Social Determinants ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Search Data ◽  
Google Search

Scholars have recently become increasingly interested in understanding the prevalence and persistence of conspiratorial beliefs among the public as recent research has shown such beliefs to be both widespread and to have deleterious effects on the political process. This article seeks to develop a sociological understanding of the structural conditions that are associated with conspiratorial belief. Using aggregate Google search data to measure public interest in two popular political conspiracy theories, the findings indicate that social conditions associated with threat and insecurity, including unemployment, changes in partisan control of government, and demographic changes, are associated with increased conspiratorial ideation.

scholarly journals SINEMA RELIGI DALAM PUSARAN INDUSTRI MEDIA

1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-290
Author(s):  
Ropingi El Ishaq
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Direct Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tv Program

Normatively, media functions as a means of conveying information, education, andentertainment as well as controlling and relating the society. On the basis of its function,media has a chance to build a direct communication with the society so that it has a strategicposition that may give benefits not only to the social aspect, but also to economic and politicalaspects.One way to develop communication with the public is through soap opera program.This TV program is chosen since it can highly attract public interest. In the point of view ofmedia industry, public or audience are considered as customers who have to be served by theproducer. The more the customers are satisfied, the more the producer gets benefit. One themeof soap operas that can highly attract public interest is religion-related theme.It reflects the normative society understanding of religion. As a result, the religiousmessage contained in the soap operas is very formal. Moreover, since it can highly attractpublic attention, it can be utilized by media industry to get as much profit as they can and itdoes not function to give education and wholesome entertainment.

Google Rules

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Elizabeth Gray
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Technological Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Copyright ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Rule Making

Google Rules traces the rise of Google through its legal, commercial, and political negotiations over copyright. The first part of the book shows how the public interest suffers in a digital copyright policy debate dominated by powerful industry stakeholders. The second part explores Google’s contributions to digital copyright and the copyright policies that Google enforces across its own platforms. Increasingly, Google self-regulates and negotiates with media and entertainment companies to privately devise copyright rules. Google then deploys algorithmic regulatory technologies to enforce those rules. Google’s private copyright rule-making and algorithmic enforcement limits transparency and accountability in digital copyright governance and privileges private interest and values over the public interest. Today, Google reigns over a technological and economic order that features empowered private actors and rapidly changing technological conditions. How to effectively regulate Google—in an evolving technological environment and in order to achieve public interest outcomes—is one of the most pressing policy questions of our time. Google Rules provides several strategies for taking up this challenge. While the parameters may be narrowly set upon one firm and one area of intellectual property law, ultimately, the book is a contribution to a much broader conversation about a new generation of monopolistic companies, born from the technological developments of the digital age, and the social, political, and economic influence they have acquired in contemporary society.

Service as Duty

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Henning Melber
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
World War ◽  
Value System ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social

This chapter presents a summary background to the influences Dag Hammarskjöld was exposed to by his family during his upbringing, and the influence his father had as a Prime Minister appointed by the King during World War I. It summarizes his influential role in bringing about the Swedish welfare state as an economist (without a party membership) in the Social Democratic government during the 1930s and 1940s. It explains his internalized value system, which was that of a Swedish civil servant loyal to the public interest and the people, and how he defined and understood his contribution. It stresses his emphasis on integrity and service as a duty of life, views which were inspired by the protestant ethics of Max Weber.

scholarly journals Ghana Trips Over the trips Agreement on Plant Breeders’ Rights

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-45
Author(s):  
Thaddeus Manu
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Social Norm ◽  
Intellectual Property Right ◽  
International Union ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
The Public ◽  
Safeguard Measures ◽  
New Varieties ◽  
Economic Reasoning ◽  
Plant Breeders Rights

The premise under which the global Intellectual Property Right (ipr) system is validated has often focused on a traditional materialistic approach. While this seems to find legitimate support in economic reasoning, such a fundamental view also appears to contradict a related social norm claim, which dictates that society ought to be shaped by appropriate values rather than economic rubrics. Although Ghana is not a signatory member of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants Convention (upov Convention), there is explicit evidence that the Plant Breeders’ Rights (pbrs) Bill under consideration in the Ghanaian Parliament contains provisions modelled on the upov Act 1991 rather than the potentially flexible and effective sui generis system in trips. This paper aims to contribute to a recently active area of discussion on the topic by examining the consequences of stringent legislation on pbrs in the absence of adequate safeguard measures to protect the public interest. Consequently, the hypothesis of this paper rests on the argument that every system needs checks and balances and the legislative system is no exception. The conclusion is that Ghana should not ignore the effective sui generis system under trips for the pbrs modelled around the upov Convention because the latter does not entail adequate safeguard provisions and stands to devalue the public interest.

“The Public Interest” in Administrative Decision-Making: Theorem, Theosophy, or Theory?

1957 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 346-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glendon A. Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Enterprise System ◽  
Free Enterprise ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Action ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
The Social

Textbooks in public administration customarily conclude with a section on administrative responsibility. The charitable inference is that this location betokens the saving of the best till last, rather than the appendage of an afterthought. Herbert Kaufman might explain it as the preoccupation of the past generation of political scientists with the legitimation of the efficient exercise of administrative power to subserve the goals of the social state, with a consequent sublimation of the emerging problem of the control of large, professionalized bureaucracies. However that may be, it does seem clear that, with the exception of administrative decisions which adversely affect “civil liberties,” most political scientists have been content to let lawyers and defenders of the free enterprise system worry about the restraint of administrative action.

scholarly journals Public Interest Communications: A Social Psychological Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviane Seyranian
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Elaboration Likelihood Model ◽  
Elaboration Likelihood ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Minority Influence ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Likelihood Model ◽  
Social Psychological Perspective

Public interest communications sheds light on how leaders and groups can optimize their social change efforts through strategic and science-based communication that serves the public good. This article examines how insights from the social psychological fields of social influence and intergroup relations can inform public interest communications, drawing on the Elaboration Likelihood Model, the Context-Comparison Model, majority and minority influence processes, and Social Identity Theory. Overall, these social psychological insights could be applied to advance both the research agendas and the practice of the growing discipline of public interest communications.

scholarly journals Public Prosecutors to Defend the Public Interest

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 301-316
Author(s):  
José P. Ribeiro de Albuquerque
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
Public Prosecution ◽  
Legal Representation ◽  
Constitutional Review ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Model ◽  
Public Prosecution Service

The preconditions for the question I want to address today are the social skills, duties and responsibilities of the Portuguese Public Prosecution Service. It is an independent and autonomous judicial body, based on a constitutional and legal model that confers functions on the Public Prosecution Service encompassing not only criminal prosecution and participation in the implementation of the criminal policy, but also the legal representation for employees, the promotion and protection of the welfare of children and young people, as well as the protection of collective and diffuse interests (environment, urban planning, public health, etc.), the safeguarding of the judicial independence and of the law, the enforcement of judicial decisions, the constitutional review and the promotion of the public interest. It is in the Public Prosecution´s powers of initiative in the public interest that I would like to focus on.

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