scholarly journals Lessons from an internship at Waipā: District Council motivations and incentives

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Denne
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Effective Change ◽  
The People ◽  
District Council ◽  
Master Of Public Policy

Creating change through policy interventions relies most often on changing individuals’ behaviour. To create effective change, it is important for policymakers to understand the attitudes and motivations of the people most affected. I learned how important this is while spending my summer interning at the Waipä District Council in Waikato as part of Victoria University’s Master of Public Policy graduate pathway programme.

scholarly journals Teaching Complexity: The Limits of Evidence and the ‘Prospective’ Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Amanda Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Master Of Public Policy ◽  
Lesson Drawing

Policy practitioner–students in a Master of Public Policy programme in New Zealand describe many problems and processes in their work environments as ‘complex’. Yet, they hold firmly to a belief in the merits of ‘evidence’ to guide their advice and decision making in the face of that complexity. This article examines the aims and pedagogy of a two-course sequence designed to help students replace over-reliance on analysing existing evidence with understanding of the ways complexity concepts can aid in estimating possible outcomes of policy interventions. Starting with identifying evidence challenges, students learn how to compare a status quo situation and a prospective case of that status quo in which a new policy has been implemented. This method draws on existing scholarship in lesson-drawing for policy applications. Students are eased into an appreciation of a variety of complexity frameworks and concepts by looking at a case about which there is, strictly speaking, no evidence. 

Promoting Savings for Financial Resilience: Expanding the Psychological Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-54
Author(s):  
Crystal C. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Savings

In the United States, the lack of personal savings has been a perennial concern in the world of public policy. Policymakers and other practitioners constantly struggle with how to encourage families to accumulate funds in preparation for inevitable, but often unpredictable, financial emergencies. The field of applied behavioral science has attempted to address this challenge—often with mixed or modest results. I argue that psychological science (personality and social psychology in particular) offers underappreciated insights into the design and implementation of policy interventions to improve the rate of individual savings. In this article, I briefly discuss examples of prior interventions that have attempted to increase saving and then lay out some opportunities that have not been deeply explored. Future research in this area should broaden and deepen the way that psychology is leveraged as a tool to improve the financial security of the people who are the most vulnerable.

Populism, Politics, and Public Policy: 1970s Conservatism

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-98
Author(s):  
J. David Hoeveler
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
The People

A quarter century and more has passed since the 1970s made its debut. History, always problematic as an objective undertaking, encourages present-mindedness when proximity to events in question governs our perspectives. This article does not pretend to have avoided this pitfall. Today the animus against government dominates political discourse. “Outsiders” who aspire to office boast of that status; “insiders” obscure theirs. All politicians design to show their commonness, their oneness with the people, the beleaguered people, victims of the socially privileged, of haughty bureaucrats, and the sundry occult forces that sustain their misery. Ours, it has been observed, has become a dominantly “populist” culture, its anti-elitism resounding from local Serb Halls in Milwaukee and elsewhere to the very chambers of the Capitol itself.

scholarly journals Clinical and public policy interventions to address food insecurity among children

2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Annelise Brochier ◽  
Arvin Garg ◽  
Alon Peltz
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Policy Interventions

scholarly journals Predictors of Perceived Salt Intake and Actual Salt Intake in Romania. Implications for public policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (10) ◽  
pp. 3622-3626
Author(s):  
Corina Ilinca ◽  
Marian Preda ◽  
Stefania Matei ◽  
Stephen J. Cutler ◽  
Oana Tautu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Salt Intake ◽  
Active Lifestyle ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Obesity And Diabetes ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Major Discrepancy ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
And Gender

Salt intake is one of the important predictors of hypertension, a widespread chronic disease among adults. Much remains to be known about its causes, especially in the Romanian context, where there is a scarcity of analyses on this particular topic. Its predictors are relevant for public policy in order to evaluate what strategy should be adopted given actual levels of salt intake and the way people think about their levels of salt intake. Our analyses focus on actual and perceived salt intake. Data for this analysis come from the SEPHAR project, gathered in 2016 (wave 3), a nationally representative sample of Romanians. After noting a major discrepancy between perceived and actual levels of salt intake, we used two regressions with actual and perceived salt intake as dependent variables and three types of factors as independent variables: socio-demographic (age, gender, region, type of locality, education), lifestyle (fat diet, alcohol consumption, active lifestyle, and smoking) and related diseases (obesity and diabetes). Results show Romanians have similar levels of salt intake perceptions independently of the characteristics considered, except fat diet and diabetes, and similar levels of actual salt intake except age and gender, even though previous research shows that there are differences between individuals across these characteristics when it comes to considering hypertension as a dependent variable. We conclude by noting policy interventions regarding salt intake based on the results of this research, especially the need to update the current Romanian TV campaign to reduce salt intake or similar campaigns from other countries.

scholarly journals 160 DILEMA KEBIJAKAN YANG PRO RAKYAT (Peraturan Gubernur Kalimantan Tengah No 15 Tahun 2010 tentang Pembukaan Lahan dan Pekarangan Bagi Masyarakat)

KRITIS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-176
Author(s):  
Brian L Djumaty ◽  
Nina Putri Hayam Dey
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Central Kalimantan ◽  
Policy Relevance ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Food Needs

Since the enactment of decentralization local government have been granted the authority to organize, protect society etc. Given the authority that Central Kalimantan provincial government issued a policy (Pergub No. 15 tahun 2010 on guidelines for land clearing and yard for the people) to protect the local community in the tradition / habit of farming by burning forests to customary provisions. The aim of this study is to describe and analyze the extent to which public policy relevance since the issuance of the policy in 2010-2015 and to what extent these policies protect the local wisdom. the method used is descriptive qualitative study, using the study of literature in the process of data collection. Results and discussion of these studies show that 1) in 2015 created a policy that is no longer relevant because the whole area of Central Kalimantan is 15.3 million hectares, 12.7 hectares (78%) is controlled by plantation companies. 2) goodwill by the Government of Central Kalimantan to protect local communities need to be given appreciation. But this policy could apply / relevant if it is done before the 90s because many forests and local people still farming to meet food needs.

scholarly journals El trabajo en la pepena informal en México: nuevas realidades, nuevas desigualdades / Informal Scavenging in Mexico: New realities, New Inequalities

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Juan Cervantes Niño ◽  
Lylia Palacios Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Evaluation Methodology ◽  
National Study ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Politica Publica ◽  
New Inequalities

Generalmente se afirma que las actividades de la pepena informal son algunas de las peores formas de empleo en México. Sin embargo, con base en la información de un estudio nacional y mediante una metodología de evaluación rápida, en este texto se destaca que muchas de las características típicas de dichas actividades han mutado y que en la actualidad se pueden encontrar nuevas realidades de esas ocupaciones, las cuales conllevan diferentes desigualdades, pero pueden inducir a una mejor formulación de intervenciones de política pública. AbstractInformal scavenging in Mexico is generally held to be the worst form of employment. However, on the basis of information from a national study and a quick evaluation methodology, this text shows that many of the typical characteristics of these activities have changed and that nowadays, these occupations have new realities, which lead to different realities yet which can lead to a better formulation of public policy interventions.

Firearm Instrumentality: Do Guns Make Violent Situations More Lethal?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony A. Braga ◽  
Elizabeth Griffiths ◽  
Keller Sheppard ◽  
Stephen Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Online Publication ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Considerable Evidence ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Firearm Availability ◽  
Do So

One of the central debates animating the interpretation of gun research for public policy is the question of whether the presence of firearms independently makes violent situations more lethal, known as an instrumentality effect, or whether determined offenders will simply substitute other weapons to affect fatalities in the absence of guns. The latter position assumes sufficient intentionality among homicide assailants to kill their victims, irrespective of the tools available to do so. Studies on the lethality of guns, the likelihood of injury by weapon type, offender intent, and firearm availability provide considerable evidence that guns contribute to fatalities that would otherwise have been nonfatal assaults. The increasing lethality of guns, based on size and technology, and identifiable gaps in existing gun control policies mean that new and innovative policy interventions are required to reduce firearm fatalities and to alleviate the substantial economic and social costs associated with gun violence. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Criminology, Volume 4 is January 13, 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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