scholarly journals Democratic Policy Making with Real-Time Agenda Setting: Part 1

10.3386/w8973 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Douglas Bernheim ◽  
Antonio Rangel ◽  
Luis Rayo
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making

Inner Unity and Regional Diversity in Unified Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-17
Author(s):  
Helga A. Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
German Unification ◽  
Regional Diversity ◽  
Special Place ◽  
East West

German unification prompted expectations of harmonization in political culture and promises of equivalent living conditions across the federation. Almost three decades later, the revival of narratives based on East-West differences has raised concerns whether inner unity, a term coined to describe political and material convergence across the former East-West divide, has stagnated or fallen behind. Frustration with the process of unification based on East-West contrasts, however, tends to downplay achievements and, importantly, regional diversity across the federation. I advocate a shift in perspective to the subnational (Land and communal) levels and illustrate regional variation with examples that address equivalent living conditions and demographic change. North-South differences coexist with East-West and within-region differences, suggesting not two but four or five Germanies. The eastern regions still occupy a special place in the unified Germany; they contribute to agenda setting and policy making with important implications across the federation.

scholarly journals What the COVID-19 pandemic reveals about science, policy and society

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Ball
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
General Applicability ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Scrutiny ◽  
The Uk

The global COVID-19 pandemic of 2020–2021 required politicians to work alongside and depend on scientists more closely than any other event in recent times. It also saw science unfold in real time under intense public scrutiny. As a result, it highlighted as never before the ways in which science interacts with policy-making and with society, showing with sometimes painful clarity that science does not operate in a social or political vacuum. With the advent of vaccines against the coronavirus that has caused the pandemic, science has come to be seen as something of a saviour. But at other times and in other contexts it has also been cast as a villain and an inconvenience, and has run into stark conflict with political leadership. In this article, I consider these issues with particular reference to the situation in the UK—which, as with any nation, illustrated some considerations of more general applicability but also had aspects unique to this country. I argue that there are many lessons to be learnt, and that, as this is surely not the last infectious-disease crisis of such magnitude that the world will face, we must hope they will be heeded.

Courts and Executives

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Yates ◽  
Scott Boddery
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Legal Authority ◽  
Judicial Selection ◽  
American Law

We examine existing empirical studies addressing the intersection of American courts and the Executive and explore multiple aspects of dynamics between these two primary branches of government. We assay the literature on the formal powers of the president and how courts have shaped and adjusted the legal authority and reach of the federal executive. We also investigate how presidents can influence American public policy through less direct pathways such as agenda-setting. However, one of the president’s most renowned powers is that of appointment—and we assess how presidents have helped shape the landscape of American law through the appointment of judicial actors and consider the politics of the federal judicial selection process. Finally, we address the president’s primary legal arm—the Solicitor General’s Office—and investigate the office’s influence on Supreme Court policy-making.

9. The European Commission

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Egeberg
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
International Organization ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
Implementation Programme

This chapter focuses on the European Commission, arguing that it is more productive to compare it to national executives or to a government than to a secretariat of a traditional international organization. It first provides an overview of the Commission's functions within the European Union's policy-making process, including agenda-setting, policy implementation, programme management, and external relations, and notes that the Commission plays a more limited role in foreign, security, and defence policy. The chapter proceeds by discussing the question of Commission influence and autonomy, along with the structure, demography, and decision behaviour within the Commission. It also describes committees and administrative networks that link the Commission to national administrations and interest groups, as well as the recent growth of EU agencies.

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