scholarly journals The Gardens of Singapore

2018 ◽  
pp. 169-177
Author(s):  
Stuart Lindsay ◽  
David Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Natural World ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Public Gardens ◽  
The Public ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
Botanical Research ◽  
High Level

Singapore has several public gardens of which two, Singapore Botanic Gardens and Gardens by the Bay, are of particular national and international renown. These two gardens have contrasting but complementary ways of enthusing and educating the public about plants and of gaining their support for horticultural excellence, botanical research and conservation. Founded in 1859, Singapore Botanic Gardens is an old and established garden with a long history of horticultural and botanical research, plant exploration and conservation. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2015, the world’s first tropical botanic garden to receive this accolade. Gardens by the Bay opened in 2012 and its focus is on large-scale displays in spectacular settings, thereby attracting huge numbers of visitors since its opening. In their contrasting ways, both gardens enthuse and educate the public about plants and the natural world. This work lays the foundations for public advocacy of conservation efforts in Singapore, resulting in a very high level of public support for greening efforts and the protection of natural areas in land-scarce Singapore.

Journalists’ Misjudgement of Audience Opinion

2021 ◽  
pp. 194016122110522
Author(s):  
David Nicolas Hopmann ◽  
Andreas R.T. Schuck
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Support ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Federal States ◽  
Voting Age ◽  
The Right

Prior studies have reported a right-leaning bias in the media’s reporting of how the public thinks of political issues, raising the question: Why, and to what extent, is this the case? One reason in particular has been discussed in this regard: Journalists judge public opinion to be more right leaning than it actually is (Beckers et al. 2021; Lewis et al. 2004). This paper therefore studies to what extent journalists misjudge audience opinion. The analyses are based on large-scale representative surveys of journalists (1993/2005) and the voting-age population (1994/2005) in Germany. Results show that German journalists (mis-)judge audience opinion to be more right-leaning than the audience sees itself. The results also show that journalists judge audience opinion to be to the right of their own stances, and that journalists in federal states with a right-leaning government and in West Germany judge audience opinion to be even further to the right. Audience feedback does not push journalists’ judgements of their audience towards the right, however. These results are discussed vis-à-vis research showing that there is a consistent bias in the depiction of opinions expressed by ordinary citizens, and research documenting that political elites overestimate public support for right-wing policies.

Using relationship management to legitimate the monarchy: An analysis of the reign of King Juan Carlos I of Spain

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (27) ◽  
Author(s):  
César García
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
Relationship Management ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
Good Relationship ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Basic Relationship ◽  
High Level ◽  
New Democracy

This article explores the management of relationships by King Juan Carlos I of Spain to legitimate the monarchy as an institution and build a new democracy after Franco’s death in 1975. The high level of public support during most of his reign shows there is a correlation between good relationship management and the loyalty of the subjects. Only when some basic relationship management principles of mutual benefit, such as trust and openness with his subjects, were violated the level of support of Juan Carlos I, and the monarchy as an institution started to decline. Nonetheless, the value of relationship management has proved durable since the new monarch, Felipe VI, was able to recover in a relatively short period of time the public support that Juan Carlos I enjoyed in the past. This fact indicates that even in the case of disruptive monarchies, such as Spain, the power of relationship management has shown effectiveness to legitimate the institution. However, at the same time it also points out that in a public opinion regime monarchies have to show exemplarity and that involves not only to create mutual benefit for the citizenship through good deeds, since Juan Carlos I always behaved professionally as a business and diplomatic representative, but that there is feeling of trust between the monarch and the subjects.

Roman and late-antique Butrint: excavations and survey 2000-2001

2002 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 199-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Bowden ◽  
R. Hodges ◽  
K. Lako ◽  
D. Bescoby ◽  
A. Crowson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Present Report ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
First Results

The Roman and Byzantine port of Butrint, situated on the SW coast of Albania directly opposite the island of Corfu, has been the focus of a major research project since 1994. The investigation of the site and its hinterland commenced with excavations within the walled town and a survey of sites and monuments in the region (Hodges et al 1997). Despite a brief hiatus caused by civil unrest in Albania in 1997, work continued with excavation and study seasons in 1998 and 1999. The results of the first five years of the project are due to be published shortly (Hodges, Bowden and Lako, forthcoming).The second phase of the Butrint project, starting in 2000, has encompassed a wide variety of research aims. They have included extensive research on the archives of the Italian mission that conducted large-scale excavations between 1928 and 1942. Among other finds, this resulted in the discovery of the manuscript of L. Ugolini's Albania antica vol. 4, the hitherto unpublished results of the Italian excavation of the Hellenistic and Roman theatre (Gilkes, forthcoming). Other archival research has focussed on the records of the communist-period archaeological investigations, and has resulted in a much better understanding of the aims and results of these projects, which in some cases are almost wholly unpublished. Our project is also concerned with the controlled development of the site for tourism. This has resulted in the expansion of the UNESCO World Heritage site to 2900 ha and the creation of a National Park with the intent of protecting the archaeological and natural landscape around Butrint (Hodges and Martin 2000; Martin 2001). The present report is a synthesis of the first results of the major excavations of 2000 and 2001. While it is possible (and indeed likely) that interpretations may change as excavations continue, it was felt that the material was of sufficient interest to justify an interim statement.

scholarly journals Social Diagnostics of the Housing Renovation Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-151
Author(s):  
Andrey Merzlykov
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Program Implementation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Diagnostic Study ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
High Level

The article presents the socio-diagnostic study results of the Moscow districts residents assessment of the housing renovation program implementation. Relations groups to the city program were identified, which can be divided into supporters, critics and hesitants. The predominance of neutral assessments is dictated by the fact that the program is only at the initial stage of its implementation, Muscovites are still finding it difficult to assess the progress of its implementation. Social expectations and concerns about the program were analyzed. It is noted that unreasonable fears and fears dominate the public consciousness. The reason for their creation is the low level of awareness of the residents of the districts both about the program itself and about the stages and activities for its implementation. The analysis of information channels for obtaining significant information shows a very high level of confidence of residents in sources organized by the authorities and the responsible executor (Renovation Fund), but dissatisfaction with the quality and completeness of the information provided makes residents of the districts cautious about assessing its implementation. The average level of readiness of residents to interact with the authorities to discuss planning projects and socially significant problems has been revealed, which in the future can increase significantly in cases of gross violation or failure to fully fulfill the promises and guarantees announced by the authorities. Possible strategies for the conduct of the population in asserting their civil rights are identified: complaints and appeals to the authorities; individual protest activity, organization of work of initiative groups and passive position. The results of the study were presented to the Customer – Renovation Fund and can be used in organizing sociological support for large-scale socially significant projects

Colleges and their alternatives in the educational strategy of early modern Dutch Catholics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willem Frijhoff
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
Catholic Reformation ◽  
Catholic Colleges ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Level

Like other Catholic communities in Protestant jurisdictions, the Dutch had their own early modern collegial network. The early modern Dutch state is commonly known as a Protestant bulwark from which the Catholics were by and large expelled. However, due to the efforts of the Catholic Reformation and the reluctance of many Dutch to embrace Calvinism in its orthodox variety, Dutch Catholicism managed to survive on a rather large scale, though often with a particular colour marked by lay power and imbued with Jansenism, a rigid variety of Catholic theology rather similar to orthodox Calvinism. Whereas Catholic elementary education continued to be provided in private schools, Catholic colleges and universities, as public institutions, were not allowed in the Dutch Republic. During two centuries Dutch Catholics, at least the militant among them, had to go abroad for their secondary and higher education. Foreign colleges played a major role in their education and intellectual debates: the Dutch colleges of Cologne, Dole, Douai and Rome remained faithful to the Old Church, whereas those of close-by Louvain were the breeding-ground of Jansenism. Significant numbers of Dutch students went to other Catholic universities, at Reims in France, at Pont-à-Mousson in Lorraine, or at different German universities. The Jansenist schism of 1723 led to the creation of the Old Catholic Church with its own college at home, at Amersfoort, tolerated by the Dutch authorities. The scale of the Catholic communities posed a multi-confessional challenge for the Dutch. This was overcome by a high level of official connivance, permitting the tacit creation of Catholic teaching institutions on a private basis, including some small colleges, and the organization of Catholic confraternities at the public universities. Similarly, the Calvinist ‘regents’ mostly closed their eyes to the stream of Catholic students towards foreign colleges in spite of their repeated interdiction by the States-General. This essay will look at four educational strategies adopted by Dutch Catholics to ensure their survival as a confessional community.

The impact of COVID-19 closures on the Megalithic Temples of Malta UNESCO world heritage site

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Caruana ◽  
Elaine Debono ◽  
Katya Stroud ◽  
MariaElena Zammit
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Mediterranean Islands ◽  
Central Mediterranean ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
Megalithic Temples ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis study will determine the impact COVID-19 closures had on the Megalithic Temples of Malta. The physical, economic, social and conservation impacts will be discussed.Design/methodology/approachThis study relies mainly on field observations of the effects managerial and state decisions had on the sites. A timeline from February to July 2020 will outline all major events and changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic happening in Malta and specifically within Heritage Malta sites.FindingsThe pandemic impacted the sites under study economically, and socially, whilst the impact on the sites attributed to visitors and other agents of deterioration were variable. These findings affected the way sites reopened to the public with restrictions and additional safety measures.Originality/valueThis article highlights the effect the pandemic had on archaeological sites in Central Mediterranean islands which are heavily reliant on tourism. It also highlights the important role such open-air sites have within the local community.

Public Attitude Toward Science and Science Education

1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 535-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Yager ◽  
John E. Penick
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Public Attitude ◽  
The Public ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
Work Related ◽  
High Level ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Public support for and interest in various fields, issues, organizations, and situations change. Public support for and interest in science and science education have been studied over a thirty-year period. Yankelovich's work related to science was enlarged to include science education. The public was very supportive of science and science education following the 1957 lauching of the Soviet Sputnik This high level of support is observed again in 1985, presumably because of the relationship of science and technology to economic security. Public support for science and science education was at a low point for the 30 year period in 1975.

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