Toward the Integrated Study of Political Communications, Public Opinion, and the Policy-Making Process

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.

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Public Opinion, Domestic Structure, and Foreign Policy in Liberal Democracies

World Politics ◽

10.2307/2010534 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 479-512 ◽

Cited By ~ 211

Author(s):

Thomas Risse-Kappen

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Public Opinion ◽

Political Institutions ◽

Policy Making ◽

Public Attitudes ◽

The United States ◽

Policy Outcomes ◽

Liberal Democracies ◽

Policy Making Process ◽

The Impact

The paper discusses the role of public opinion in the foreign policy-making process of liberal democracies. Contrary to prevailing assumptions, public opinion matters. However, the impact of public opinion is determined not so much by the specific issues involved or by the particular pattern of public attitudes as by the domestic structure and the coalition-building processes among the elites in the respective country. The paper analyzes the public impact on the foreign policy-making process in four liberal democracies with distinct domestic structures: the United States, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Japan. Under the same international conditions and despite similar patterns of public attitudes, variances in foreign policy outcomes nevertheless occur; these have to be explained by differences in political institutions, policy networks, and societal structures. Thus, the four countries responded differently to Soviet policies during the 1980s despite more or less comparable trends in mass public opinion.

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Public Opinion and the Demand for Social Welfare in Britain

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s0047279400001537 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 453-475 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Paul Whiteley

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Social Policy ◽

Social Welfare ◽

Policy Making ◽

Policy Formation ◽

Welfare Spending ◽

The Social ◽

Policy Making Process

ABSTRACTThis article discusses the role of public opinion in the social policy making process. It argues that existing accounts of social policy formation are inadequate in their treatment of public opinion, and inconsistent in their estimation of its importance. It then goes on to examine detailed examples of the role of public opinion in policy making; and finally tests two hypotheses concerning the sources of the demand for social welfare spending on the part of the British electorate.

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Channelling Public Opinion into EU's Trade Policy Making Process: Case Study of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Journal of international area studies ◽

10.18327/jias.2017.04.21.1.73 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 73

Author(s):

Yoo-Duk Kang

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Trade Policy ◽

Policy Making ◽

Transatlantic Trade ◽

Policy Making Process ◽

Trade And Investment

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Public Opinion of Ethnic Minority Area in Northern Vietnam in the Context of Globalization

International Journal on Minority and Group Rights ◽

10.1163/15718115-bja10013 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Phan Tan ◽

Le Thi Thuy Ly

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Ethnic Minority ◽

Ethnic Minorities ◽

Policy Making ◽

Social Issues ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Northern Vietnam ◽

Policy Making Process ◽

Minority Area

Abstract Researching public opinion in ethnic minority areas of Vietnam in general and ethnic minority area of Northern Vietnam in particular to understand what people are desiring is essential. Ethnic minorities in Northern Vietnam are not only concerned with the urgent issues associated with their daily lives, but also diverse social issues in an age where communication is strongly developing. People always show dynamism and activeness in practices related to public opinion. And remarkably, in this picture, there is no clear slice between modern elements of the globalization context and traditional elements. Views that ethnic minorities are always passive need to be revised. It is necessary to create conditions for people to participate more effectively in the policy making process.

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Positive Reintegration as a Way of Small and Medium-Sized Business Development

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2012-6-83-88 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 83-88

Author(s):

A. Zolotov ◽

M. Mukhanov

Keyword(s):

Policy Implementation ◽

Policy Making ◽

Economic Reforms ◽

Alternative Possibility ◽

New Approach ◽

Compensation Mechanisms ◽

Policy Making Process ◽

Monitoring And Enforcement ◽

The Subject ◽

Modernization Process

А new approach to policy-making in the field of economic reforms in modernizing countries (on the sample of SME promotion) is the subject of this article. Based on summarizing the ten-year experience of de-bureaucratization policy implementation to reduce the administrative pressure on SME, the conclusion of its insufficient efficiency and sustainability is made. The alternative possibility is the positive reintegration approach, which provides multiparty policy-making process, special compensation mechanisms for the losing sides, monitoring and enforcement operations. In conclusion matching between positive reintegration principles and socio-cultural factors inherent in modernization process is provided.

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