scholarly journals Strategic Communication in Cultural Organizations, the Landscape Museum

2021 ◽  
pp. 323-338
Author(s):  
Maria João Centeno
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Public Culture ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Educational Service ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Cultural Organizations

This chapter intends to explore the role of strategic communication in cultural organizations, presenting the Landscape Museum. Since the field of strategic communication does not have a unifying conceptual framework (Hallahan et al., 2007), this work intends to explore one of the various communication pursuits: building and maintaining relationships or networks through dialogue. The Landscape Museum’s mission is to contribute to the development of a landscape citizenship, awakening a critical and participatory sense in citizens. The museum has been trying to achieve it by building and maintaining strong and permanent relationships through dialogue. Since “strategic communication also includes examining how an organization presents itself in society as a social actor in the creation of public culture and in the discussion of public issues” (Hallahan et al., 2007, p. 27) and considering Self’s (2015) proposal for dialogue, it “is not just about achieving consensus, but facilitates debate and advocacy in public policy formation” (p. 74), this chapter presents how the Landscape Museum specifically through its educational service has been promoting the acceptance, through dialogue, of ideas related to landscape’s protection and valorization and thus contributing to landscape citizenship.

Career Guidance: Living on the Edge of Public Policy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McCarthy ◽  
Tibor Bors Borbély-Pecze
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Career Guidance ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
National Level ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Education And Employment

Public policy formation and implementation for career guidance provision are complex issues, not least because in most countries career guidance is a peripheral part of legislation for education, employment, and social inclusion. Policy solutions are compromises by nature. Regulations and economic incentives are the main policy instruments for career guidance provision, but there is often incoherence between the intentions of the regulations and the economic incentives provided for policy implementation. The intermediary organizations that serve to implement policy add significant variability to policy effects. International bodies and organizations have shown significant interest in the role of career guidance in education and employment policies through the undertaking of policy reviews, the formulation of recommendations for career guidance, and, in some cases, providing economic incentives to support their implementation. However, there is a dearth of evaluation studies of policy formation and implementation at the national level.

scholarly journals Amenity Benefits and Public Policy: An Application to the Connecticut Dairy Sector

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 485-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rigoberto A. Lopez ◽  
Marilyn A. Altobello ◽  
Farhed A. Shah
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Production Cost ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
State Level ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Milk Supply

AbstractThis article develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the role of state-level policies towards the dairy sector in the presence of farmland amenity benefits, and applies it to Connecticut. Milk supply, demand and amenity benefit functions are estimated, and three exogenously determined milk prices are considered. The empirical findings show, under each price scenario, the extent to which land is underallocated to the dairy sector if amenity benefits are ignored. Analysis of policy options reveals that a partial production cost subsidy represents the least-cost alternative for attaining the socially optimal solution for the region.

Partisan brand name building and deficit politics: examining the role of power sharing on party issue consistency

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Lynch ◽  
Anthony J. Madonna
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Brand Name ◽  
Effective Governance ◽  
The Government ◽  
Party Voting

AbstractScholars of political parties frequently note that a party's candidates are aided by the presence of a consistent and favourable party brand name. We argue that partisan success in maintaining a consistent position on important policy issues hinges on how their role in the government motivates their strategies about public policy formation. Specifically, when parties share control of government institutions, parties need to balance their electoral interest in promoting a consistent brand name with the need to generate public policy that leads to effective governance. When control is held by one party, the costs and benefits of effective governance are born entirely by the majority, absolving both parties of the need to compromise on the substance of policy. By employing item response theory methods to assess patterns of party voting on deficit issues, we find strong support for these hypotheses.

Consensus Formation: The Creation of an Ideology

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. TRISTRAM ENGELHARDT
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Expert Testimony ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Moral Vision ◽  
Consensus Formation ◽  
Moral Issues

Bioethics is not merely a theoretical discipline but a practice as well. Indeed, bioethics is a sort of moral trade. Bioethicists serve on ethics committees, give expert testimony to courts, provide guidance for healthcare policy, and receive payment for these services. The difficulty is that their role as experts able to guide clinical choice and public policy formation is brought into question by the diversity of moral understandings regarding central moral issues at the heart of the culture wars in healthcare. The disconfirmation of the expert role of bioethicists by their apparent actual role as partisans of particular moral schools and perspectives could be set aside, were there an avenue to moral consensus, a door to a common moral vision to guide this new profession of moral experts. This brief article addresses the hunger for consensus in bioethics, its impossibility with respect to the controversial issues that mark the field, and the inclination nevertheless to deny this manifest diversity by appeals to a consensus that could allow bioethicists to function as ethics experts able substantively to guide clinical choices and public policy.

scholarly journals Repositioning news and public connection in everyday life: a user-oriented perspective on inclusiveness, engagement, relevance, and constructiveness

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 902-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joëlle Swart ◽  
Chris Peters ◽  
Marcel Broersma
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
News Media ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
The Public

News has traditionally served as a common ground, enabling people to connect to others and engage with the public issues they encounter in everyday life. This article revisits these theoretical debates about mediated public connection within the context of a digitalized news media landscape. While academic discussions surrounding these shifts are often explored in terms of normative ideals ascribed to political systems or civic cultures, we propose to reposition the debate by departing from the practices and preferences of the news user instead. Therefore, we deconstruct and translate the concept of public connection into four dimensions that emphasize people’s lived experiences: inclusiveness, engagement, relevance, and constructiveness. Situating these in an everyday life framework, this article advances a user-based perspective that considers the role of news for people in digital societies. Accordingly, it offers a conceptual framework that aims to encapsulate how news becomes meaningful, rather than why it should be.

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