scholarly journals Effects of the COVID-related stay-at-home order on hospitality sales and automobile traffic counts: evidence from the State of Maine, USA

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-341
Author(s):  
Todd Gabe ◽  
Andrew Crawley
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
The State ◽  
Traffic Counts ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Public Policy Issue ◽  
At Home

This paper examines the effects of the COVID-related Stay-at-Home order on hospitality sales and automobile traffic counts in the State of Maine, USA. Empirical results show that the Stay-at-Home order did not have a statistically significant impact on either measure of state economic activity. Instead, households adjusted their behavior as a result of COVID-19 in advance of the Stay-at-Home order. This is an important public policy issue given the large health and economic impacts of the pandemic, and widespread use of Stay-at-Home orders. Even beyond the COVID pandemic, however, the extent to which people respond to government restrictions is important for policy development and implementation.

American Exceptionalism and Social Security: Complementary Cultural and Structural Contributions to Social Program Development

1991 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Lockhart
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Program ◽  
Public Policy Issue ◽  
Structural Variables ◽  
Actual Operation

Although scholars routinely agree that a relative absence of socialism marks one way in which the United States is exceptional, they have argued over why we are distinct in this way. As representatives of an enduring comparative public policy issue, two “camps” of analysts have offered broad, competing explanations resting on cultural and structural variables, respectively. This article implements a strategy for demonstrating: (1) specific cultural and structural independent variables are applied most appropriately to explain specific aspects of policy development, and (2) cultural and structural contributions are thus complementary rather than competing. I proceed by focusing on an exception to the “laggard” character of the American welfare state, the unusual success of the social security program. Dealing with the obverse of the usual “why-America-lags” concern provides a more observable dependent variable, enabling us to highlight the actual operation of distinct cultural and structural forces. I then show how this strategy can be applied to broader questions of American exceptionalism and public policy development.

“Involuntary self‐employment” as a public policy issue: a cross‐country European review

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teemu Kautonen ◽  
Simon Down ◽  
Friederike Welter ◽  
Pekka Vainio ◽  
Jenni Palmroos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Public Policy Issue ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
European Review

The Case of “Illicit Appropriation” in the Use of Technology

2010 ◽  
pp. 210-229
Author(s):  
Eduardo H. Calvillo Gámez ◽  
Rodrigo Nieto-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Public Policy Issue ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Computer Interaction

In this chapter, the authors play the devil‘s advocate to those who favor strict government supervision over technology itself. The authors’ argument is that technology is a “neutral” mean to an end, and that the use of technology to detract social deviations is dependent on public policy and social behavior. To elaborate their argument they propose the concept of “illicit appropriation”, based on the Human Computer Interaction concept of appropriation. The authors argue that sometimes appropriation can be geared towards activities that can be considered as illicit, and in some cases criminal. They illustrate the use of illicit appropriation through a series of case studies of current events, in which they show that either a state or the individual can rely on illicit appropriation. The authors’ final conclusion is that the use of technology to combat social deviations is not a technological problem, but a public policy issue, where a delicate balance has to be found between the enforcement of the law by technological means (approved by legislation), the user experience, the civil liberties of the individual and the checks and balances to the power of the state. This chapter is written from the expertise of the authors on Human Computer Interaction and Security Studies.

The Role of Cognitive Responses as Mediators of Alcohol Warning Label Effects

1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Craig Andrews ◽  
Richard G. Netemeyer ◽  
Srinivas Durvasula
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cognitive Responses ◽  
Warning Label ◽  
Public Policy Issue ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Relationship

The authors examine an important public policy issue, namely, the effectiveness of federally mandated and proposed alcohol warning labels. Specifically, warning label cognitive responses are tested as mediators of effects of five different alcohol warning label types on label attitudes. On the basis of requirements for ANOVA-based mediation, net support arguments mediated 76% of the warning label treatment effect on label attitudes. Following requirements for regression-based mediation, net support arguments mediated the relationship from attitude toward drinking to label attitudes. Public policy implications and future research directions are provided.

scholarly journals Matter Unmoored: Trash, Archaeological Consciousness and American Culture and Fiction in the 1980s

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 553-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIM JELFS
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Public Policy Issue ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
Epistemological Complexity

This article considers the cultural significance of the garbage panics of the 1980s, including the voyage of the infamous Mobro 4000 “garbage barge.” The article argues that the trash at the centre of these panics is important to our understanding of both the 1980s and the present because it demanded – and still demands – that Americans see and understand it as a class of matter unmoored from temporal as well as spatial boundaries. The alarming durability of the supposedly ephemeral refuse of a culture of mass consumption invoked an “archaeological consciousness” prone to muse upon the longevity of material remains. This consciousness was expressed in various cultural and discursive arenas throughout the 1980s, revealing that durable detritus was not just a pressing public policy issue but a marker of cultural anxieties emerging out of the operations of archaeological consciousness. From concerns about contingency of the mass-consuming culture of the late twentieth-century United States to reflections on trash's own epistemological complexity, trash spoke in unexpected ways throughout the 1980s, raising important questions about the relationship between producers of culture and their audience, whose receptiveness to the urgencies of archaeological consciousness suffers from a frustrating transience as far as trash is concerned.

Poverty and food insecurity in the mexican countryside: an unsolved public policy issue

Textual ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 71-105
Author(s):  
Marisel Lemos Figueroa ◽  
◽  
Julio Baca del Moral ◽  
Venancio Cuevas Reyes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Public Policy Issue

Making Dementia a Public Policy Issue

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-257
Author(s):  
Rosemary V. Calder
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Public Policy Issue

ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE: AN EMERGING PUBLIC POLICY ISSUE

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 143-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alka Sapat ◽  
Jaap J. Vos ◽  
Khi V. Thai
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Environmental Injustice ◽  
Public Policy Issue

scholarly journals It's Time: Reimaging Universal Service for Digital Life

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Gerard Goggin
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Policy Option ◽  
Universal Service ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Public Policy Issue ◽  
Service Policy ◽  
Productive Research

This article provides a brief introduction to a timely set of papers critically discussing universal service in telecommunications and proposing policy option. This is a longstanding public policy issue, moving once more into the foreground in Australia. The article puts the papers into context, and argues for the need to reconnect universal service policy with fertile and productive research, policy, social and technology innovation in other areas. Finally, the paper argues for the urgent need to fundamentally reimagine universal service to achieve the still relevant goal of access for all to essential communications technology.

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