Using Survey Data from Sudan for Policy Making: The Determinants of Trust and the Perceived Effect on Gender of Decisions by the Tribal Leader

2017 ◽  
pp. 75-106
Author(s):  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
John Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Tribal Leader

scholarly journals Laying the Groundwork: Linking Internal Agenda-Setting Processes of Interest Groups to Their Role in Policy Making

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (8) ◽  
pp. 1337-1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren R. Halpin ◽  
Bert Fraussen
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Qualitative Evidence ◽  
Heuristic Device

Although scholarship has highlighted the role of stakeholders in policy making, less is known about the preparations they make that lay the groundwork for their lobbying activities. This article links ideas on collaborative governance with the study of agenda setting within interest groups. We outline an orthodox mode of agenda setting that anticipates groups possess a proactive policy mode, an institutionalized policy platform, and a pyramid-like agenda structure. Subsequently, we use this orthodox mode as a heuristic device for examining agenda structures and processes, combining survey data on the practices of groups in Australia with illustrative qualitative evidence.

scholarly journals Budget 2022

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barra Roantree ◽  
Karina Doorley ◽  
Theano Kakoulidou ◽  
Seamus O'Malley
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Microsimulation Model ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Inflation Forecasts ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Employment Education

This Article outlines and assesses changes to the tax and welfare system announced as part of Budget 2022. It first looks at the main taxation measures announced before turning to employment, education and social welfare supports. It then considers the effect of the package of measures as a whole on the incomes of households using representative survey data from the Survey of Incomes and Living Conditions run on SWITCH – the ESRI’s tax and benefit microsimulation model – and ITSim – an indirect tax microsimulation model developed jointly by the ESRI and the Department of Finance. The Article concludes with some brief reflections on inflation forecasts and the policy-making process.

De Europese eenmaking in de Vlaamse publieke opinie : onbekendheid, onverschilligheid, gelatenheid of machteloosheid

Res Publica ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 45 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 481-505
Author(s):  
Wilfried Dewachter
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
European Policy ◽  
Flemish Community ◽  
Important Policy ◽  
Opinion Polls

Unlike France, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and other E.U. countries Belgium has not yet organised a referendum on European policy matters, however important these may be. So one is constrained to opinion polls and survey data to grasp the attitude of the Flemish community towards European integration. Five important policy matters are examined: the introduction of the euro, the involvement in E.U. countries, the enlargement of the E.U. , the institutional design and the position ofthe Flemish community in the E.U. At the end, with about 20 % of the electorale trying to follow the intricate European polities, on the whole public opinion on Europe in Flanders seem to be a mixture of unfamiliarity, indifference, resignation and acceptance of the policy advocated by the elitist consensus in Belgium on these matters. The missing impetus is the incentives provided by a referendum to become concerned with the complex policy-making and policies in Europe.

scholarly journals Satisfaction With Democracy: When Government by the People Brings Electoral Losers and Winners Together

2021 ◽  
pp. 001041402110243
Author(s):  
Lucas Leemann ◽  
Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Satisfaction With Democracy ◽  
Extensive Survey ◽  
The People ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
Do So

The last decade has witnessed the rise of populist parties and a number of actors that question liberal democracy. Many explanations of this rely on dissatisfied citizens. We ask in this article whether and how institutions allowing citizens to participate in policy-making affect differences in democratic satisfaction within varying representative contexts as well as between electoral winners and losers. To do so, we first develop a measure of sub-national direct democracy and then use it together with extensive survey data to investigate how direct democracy is associated with citizens’ evaluation of their democratic system. We conclude that direct democracy is not generally related to more satisfied people but rather closes the “satisfaction-gap” between electoral winners and losers. In contrast to previous research, we demonstrate that this mechanism holds across different representative systems.

scholarly journals Factors Associated with the Establishment of New Occupational Therapist Positions in Norwegian Municipalities after the Coordination Reform

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 117863292199490
Author(s):  
Ruca Maass ◽  
Tore Bonsaksen ◽  
Astrid Gramstad ◽  
Unni Sveen ◽  
Linda Stigen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Occupational Therapist ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Number Of Patients

Community-based occupational therapy is an increasingly important domain of work for occupational therapists. In Norway, this has been emphasized by the Coordination reform (2012), which assigned municipalities increased responsibility to protect and promote the health of their inhabitants. However, even if approximately 400 positions have been established between 2012 and 2017, little is known whether they have contributed to increased and/or more equal coverage across municipalities. To explore this matter, survey data was gathered among members of the Norwegian Occupational Therapy Association during 2017. Data was analyzed statistically (descriptive, comparative and associative) with SPSS 25. Results suggest large regional variations in the establishment of new positions. Moreover, most new positions were established in medium-sized municipalities that already had (an) occupational therapist(s) in the community. Number of prior positions, as well as being in the process of merging with another municipality were the only significant predictors for the establishment of new positions during regression analysis. Findings suggest that no levelling-out of geographical distributions of OT-coverage has occurred, even if new positions might have contributed to level-out workload (number-of-patients-per-therapist). Further, we discuss implications of our findings for policy-making and recruitment of Occupational Therapists for rural positions.

scholarly journals Exploring Citizens’ Perceptions-based Intangible Resources in the Public Sector: An Analysis of the Relation Between Wealth and Engagement and Trust in 17 Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1(28)) ◽  
pp. 119-139
Author(s):  
Paloma Piqueiras ◽  
María José Canel Crespo
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Intangible Assets ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Organizational Behaviors

Across the globe, public administrations are employing communication to develop programs to respond to the challenges of bringing society to the core of policy making and of searching for innovative ways to generate growth. But how much do these programs achieve, and to what extent are their consequences positive? Building on theorizing about intangible assets in the public sector and based on economic indicators as well as on survey data from 17 countries, this paper explores whether specific intangible assets that are citizens’ perceptions-based can operate as sources of growth. More specifically, the article looks at citizen engagement and trust, intangible resources that are built upon organizational behaviors as well as activated through communication. Results allow us to compare the relation of these resources with growth with the relation of tangible capital with growth in 17 countries. Based on findings, the article discusses implications for public sector communication.

Is the Personal Always Political?

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Osborne ◽  
Yannick Dufresne ◽  
Gregory Eady ◽  
Jennifer Lees-Marshment ◽  
Cliff van der Linden
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Political Sophistication ◽  
Knowledge Based

Abstract. Research demonstrates that the negative relationship between Openness to Experience and conservatism is heightened among the informed. We extend this literature using national survey data (Study 1; N = 13,203) and data from students (Study 2; N = 311). As predicted, education – a correlate of political sophistication – strengthened the negative relationship between Openness and conservatism (Study 1). Study 2 employed a knowledge-based measure of political sophistication to show that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction was restricted to the Openness aspect of Openness. These studies demonstrate that knowledge helps people align their ideology with their personality, but that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction is specific to one aspect of Openness – nuances that are overlooked in the literature.

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