Public Opinion and American State Policy-Making

1972 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Weber ◽  
William R. Shaffer
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
American State

Ageing and Welfare-State Policy Making: Macroeconomic Perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assaf Razin ◽  
Alexander Horst Schwemmer
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Policy Making

scholarly journals KONSEP HIJAU: PENERAPAN GREEN CONSTITUTION DAN GREEN LEGISLATION DALAM RANGKA ECO-DEMOCRACY

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eko Nurmardiansyah
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Green Is ◽  
Global Discourse

<p><strong><em>Abstract </em></strong></p><p><em>Green principle is</em><em> to be understood</em><em> </em><em>as </em><em>a commitment to the environment</em><em>. It is p</em><em>art of a broader ideology that p</em><em>laces</em><em> human relationship with the natural world </em><em>at the center.</em> <em>Green is a process, not a status, a verb, not an adjective. </em><em> Good environmental awareness become an important and urget global discourse.</em><em> Eco</em><em>-</em><em>crasy should be</em><em>come</em><em> the guiding</em><em> principle informing Indonesian’</em><em> state policy making (political law) in environmental protection and management.</em><em>  However, the concept of Eco-crasy should be further spelled out into a </em><em>green constitution, green legislation</em><em>s</em><em> and green budgeting.</em></p>

Getting to a Wealthier and Fairer Scotland

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Keating ◽  
Robert Liñeira
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Division Of Powers ◽  
Scottish Government

Scotland has some of the prerequisites for a social investment state. Yet the division of powers between the Scottish and UK levels in relation to taxation and welfare is not optimal. The Scottish Government has reformed its policy-making structures but still has shortcomings in planning for the long term. While public opinion in Scotland supports spending on public services from which citiziens benefit, it is only slightly more favourable to redistribution than in England. The experience of other counrties shows that citizens will support public spending and the resultant taxes if they know that they will get good services.

Towards Emergency Europe

2019 ◽  
pp. 64-85
Author(s):  
Jonathan White
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Structural Vulnerability ◽  
State Agents ◽  
The Eu

Developments in recent decades have pushed the EU from a structural vulnerability to emergency rule towards increasing reliance on it. Executive agents today are surrounded by powerful non-state agents of the market sphere who carry the authority to interpret socio-economic conditions, to make sense of moments of uncertainty, and to specify the responses they demand and when. Changes within the field of executive power itself mean their voices carry ever further into decision-making circles, as a governing ethos of problem-solving displaces ideologies of principle and responsiveness to public opinion. Emergency politics is a way of coping with weakening public authority in the age of governance. The chapter goes on to examine how these dynamics extend beyond the domain of economics to include policy-making in the field of migration.

How do radical right populist parties influence resurging debates over the stripping of citizenship?

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-237
Author(s):  
Benjamin Biard
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
The Media

Debates over the stripping of citizenship have been rekindled in many countries in recent years. Radical right populist parties (RRPPs) are often perceived to have played a significant role in these resurging debates, even when they do not possess executive power and are often marginalised by mainstream parties. Thus, RRPPs’ real influence on policy-making remains unclear and the way RRPPs intervene in the policy-making process to influence it has not yet been satisfactorily determined. By focusing on policy-making, this study asks the question: how do RRPPs influence resurging debates over the stripping of citizenship? Using process-tracing and evidence from archives, memoirs and 67 interviews with policy-makers and party leaders, this research aims to determine if and how RRPPs intervene in the process in France and Belgium. The results indicate that RRPPs matter but that their influence is strongly curtailed. Their influence is not exercised directly and through institutional arenas, but indirectly: based on a provocative style, in a specific context, and through public opinion and the media.

Financial Incentives in Vertical Diffusion: The Variable Effects of Obama’s Race to the Top Initiative on State Policy Making

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-212
Author(s):  
William G. Howell ◽  
Asya Magazinnik
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Race To The Top ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Vertical Diffusion ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
General Importance ◽  
Federal Initiatives

A substantial body of empirical work documents the influence of federal monies on state policy making. Less attention, however, has been paid to the conditioning effects of states’ prior financial health. Nearly always, apportioned monies cover only a fraction of the costs of federal policy reforms. The capacity of states to deploy supplementary resources, therefore, may inform the willingness of states to comply with the federal government’s policy objectives. Focusing on Barack Obama’s Race to the Top (RttT) initiative, we present new evidence that state responses to federal initiatives that carry financial rewards systematically vary with the amount of resources already on hand. States that survived the Great Recession with their education budgets largely intact, we find, tended to implement more RttT reforms overall, and especially more reforms that required substantial up-front financial commitments. These patterns of policy adoptions can be meaningfully attributed to RttT, are not the result of either prior or ancillary policy trends, and speak to the general importance of accounting for what states already have, above and beyond what the federal government is willing to offer, when studying the financial incentives of vertical diffusion.

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