Space Policy Responsiveness in the 21st Century: A New Approach for Examining the Relationship Between Public Opinion and NASA Funding

The ability of a political system to respond to the preferences of its citizens is central to democratic theory and practice; yet most empirical research on government responsiveness has concentrated on the United States. As a result, we know very little about the nature of government policy responsiveness in Europe and we have a poor understanding of the conditions that affect cross-national variations. This comparative study examines the relationship between public opinion and policy preferences in the United Kingdom and Denmark during the past three decades. We address two key questions: First, are the government's policy intentions driven by public opinion or vice versa? Second, do political institutions influence the level of government responsiveness? We suggest that public opinion tends to drive the government's policy intentions due to the threat of electoral sanction, and that this is more pronounced in proportional systems than in majoritarian democracies.

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Declaring Race

10.1093/oso/9780190657468.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Natalie Masuoka

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Opinion ◽

Empirical Data ◽

Census Data ◽

Mixed Race ◽

The United States ◽

New Approach ◽

Interracial Couple ◽

The Relationship ◽

Choice Approach

This chapter presents an analysis of public opinion and census data to demonstrate the opportunities in, and constraints on, identifying as multiracial. It outlines a new approach to interpreting empirical data on race, the identity choice approach, and offers an example of how to apply this approach to data on multiracial identification. It examines the relationship, first, between being the child of an interracial couple and the belief that one is of mixed race, and, second, between multiracial identification and the belief that one is of mixed race. The chapter ends by presenting and interpreting census data on the two-or-more-races population in the United States.

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What’s Going On?

The Sincerity Edge ◽

10.11126/stanford/9780804797450.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Countess of Frederiksborg Alexandra Christina ◽

Timothy L. Fort

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

21St Century ◽

Legal Regulation ◽

Coercive Power ◽

Ethical Values ◽

Economic Level ◽

Economic Forces ◽

Philosophical Background ◽

Organizational Levels ◽

The Relationship

This chapter provides a foundation for 4 forces that are here to stay for business: (1) coercive power pressures (legal regulation and public opinion); (2) the need for profitability and the reality of global economic forces; (3) enduring ethical values and more conventional values that change according to time and culture; and (4) the constancy of change. These forces exist at a geopolitical and macro-economic level and they also exist at organizational levels. Based on this framing, values such as sincerity and integrity accompany power and economics. Though their relevance can temporarily be minimized, eventually, they reassert themselves, which has happened in 21st century business. The chapter also provides a conceptual, occasionally philosophical, background on the relationship and differentiation among notions such as authenticity, sincerity, integrity, trust, and leadership.

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Colonialism and the Highland Clearances

Northern Scotland ◽

10.3366/nor.2017.0125 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 22-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Iain Mackinnon

Keyword(s):

Industrial Development ◽

Comparative Approach ◽

Indigenous Research ◽

Internal Colonialism ◽

New Approach ◽

A Site ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Imperial State ◽

Late Modern

This article employs a new approach to studying internal colonialism in northern Scotland during the 18th and 19th centuries. A common approach to examining internal colonial situations within modern state territories is to compare characteristics of the internal colonial situation with attested attributes of external colonial relations. Although this article does not reject the comparative approach, it seeks to avoid criticisms that this approach can be misleading by demonstrating that promoters and managers of projects involving land use change, territorial dispossession and industrial development in the late modern Gàidhealtachd consistently conceived of their work as projects of colonization. It further argues that the new social, cultural and political structures these projects imposed on the area's indigenous population correspond to those found in other colonial situations, and that racist and racialist attitudes towards Gaels of the time are typical of those in colonial situations during the period. The article concludes that the late modern Gàidhealtachd has been a site of internal colonization where the relationship of domination between colonizer and colonized is complex, longstanding and occurring within the imperial state. In doing so it demonstrates that the history and present of the Gaels of Scotland belongs within the ambit of an emerging indigenous research paradigm.

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Security dimensions of 21st century space policy

10.2514/6.1992-702 ◽

1992 ◽

Author(s):

CATHY SWAN ◽

RAFFI GREGORIAN

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Space Policy

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The New Progressive Dilemma through the Lens of Comparative Welfare State and Party Research

10.1093/oso/9780198812906.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Dennis C. Spies

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Political Parties ◽

Welfare State ◽

Voting Behavior ◽

Attitudinal Change ◽

Welfare Institutions ◽

The Us ◽

Social Expenditures ◽

The Relationship ◽

Cross National

The chapter summarizes the New Progressive Dilemma (NPD) debate, identifying three arguments from comparative welfare state and party research likely to be relevant to the relationship between immigration and welfare state retrenchment: public opinion, welfare institutions, and political parties. Alignment of anti-immigrant sentiments and welfare support varies considerably between countries, especially between the US and Europe, leading to different party incentives vis-à-vis welfare state retrenchment. The chapter introduces insights from comparative welfare state and party research to the debate, discussing inter alia, political parties in terms of welfare retrenchment, immigrants as a voter group, and cross-national variation of existing welfare institutions. It addresses the complex debates around attitudinal change caused by immigration, levels of welfare support, voting behavior, and social expenditures. Combining these strands of literature, a common theoretical framework is developed that is subsequently applied to both the US and Western European context.

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Modeling the Radial Stem Growth of the Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) Forests Using the Satellite-Derived NDVI and LST (MODIS/AQUA) Data

Atmosphere ◽

10.3390/atmos12010012 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 12

Author(s):

Yulia Ivanova ◽

Anton Kovalev ◽

Vlad Soukhovolsky

Keyword(s):

Land Surface ◽

Vegetation Index ◽

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ◽

Principal Component ◽

Stem Growth ◽

Forest Growth ◽

Parabolic Approximation ◽

New Approach ◽

The Relationship ◽

Tree Increment

The paper considers a new approach to modeling the relationship between the increase in woody phytomass in the pine forest and satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Land Surface Temperature (LST) (MODIS/AQUA) data. The developed model combines the phenological and forest growth processes. For the analysis, NDVI and LST (MODIS) satellite data were used together with the measurements of tree-ring widths (TRW). NDVI data contain features of each growing season. The models include parameters of parabolic approximation of NDVI and LST time series transformed using principal component analysis. The study shows that the current rate of TRW is determined by the total values of principal components of the satellite indices over the season and the rate of tree increment in the preceding year.

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A new approach to the bienergy and biangle of a moving particle lying in a surface of lorentzian space

International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation ◽

10.1515/ijnsns-2019-0306 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Talat Körpınar ◽

Yasin Ünlütürk

Keyword(s):

Vector Fields ◽

Elastic Surface ◽

Geometrical Characterization ◽

Lorentzian Space ◽

New Approach ◽

Darboux Vector ◽

Moving Particle ◽

The Relationship ◽

Surface Curve

AbstractIn this research, we study bienergy and biangles of moving particles lying on the surface of Lorentzian 3-space by using their energy and angle values. We present the geometrical characterization of bienergy of the particle in Darboux vector fields depending on surface. We also give the relationship between bienergy of the surface curve and bienergy of the elastic surface curve. We conclude the paper by providing bienergy-curve graphics for different cases.

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Innovation and Corporate Social Responsibility in SMEs

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.808.359 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 808 ◽

pp. 359-363

Author(s):

Cristina Feniser ◽

Florin Lungu

Keyword(s):

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Open Innovation ◽

Social Goals ◽

New Approach ◽

Rational Management ◽

Corporate Social ◽

Qualitative Exploration ◽

Whole Life Cycle ◽

The Relationship

So far little attention has been given the differences or the compatibilities between CSR and innovation. Few works treats CSR in combination with innovation. What exactly is the relationship between CSR and innovation? Recent phenomena such as open innovation is based on the concept that the stakeholder's dialogue that overlaps with some dimensions of CSR. Being innovative means to bring organizational and technical improvements which will translate into a better position in the market. These improvements don't just aim the product, but the process by which it is obtained and its whole life-cycle. We're talking about a new approach to innovation, namely its orientation towards sustainability. Although SMEs have many features which facilitate implementation of CSR, activities of this type in such organizations are still limited. SMEs managers often make choices that are related to rational management. This leads to divergence between economical and social goals. Through a qualitative exploration of the concepts of CSR and innovation, we wanted to find out from some managers whether there is a link between innovation and CSR in SMEs and whether the activities corresponding to the two concepts overlap in a certain measure.

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