1. The Reaction of Elected Officials and Staff Criterion: The Brownfields Redevelopment Policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-43
Keyword(s):  
Elected Officials

Local funding for coastal projects: An overview of practices, policies, and considerations

Shore & Beach ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Derek Brockbank ◽  
Annie Mercer ◽  
Peter Ravella ◽  
Tyler Buckingham ◽  
Shannon Cunniff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elected Officials ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Coastal Restoration ◽  
Funding Policies ◽  
Local Funding ◽  
Project Characteristics ◽  
Beach Renourishment

The goal of this paper is to help coastal managers and elected officials think about how to fund beach renourishment and coastal restoration projects. The paper briefly reviews the evolution of funding policies, introduces funding considerations based on project characteristics, and outlines funding tools or mechanisms to consider.

Citizenship, Community, and Ethics: Forrest Gump as a Moral Exemplary

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
William D. Richardson ◽  
Ronald L. McNinch
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Ordinary Citizen ◽  
The Core ◽  
Timely Reminder ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

"Forrest Gump" bas been extraordinarily popular with the ordinary citizens and one of the reasons is self-evident: it presents a Jeffersonian confidence in the moral stalwartness of the yeoman citizenry that runs counter to some of the current approaches in ethics. The film celebrates a basic decency and a common sense that are accessible to all. No real or imagined superiority is required for one to partake. The film is not only popular but also populist in its assertion of the primacy of the ordinary citizen within this regime. In a political climate that now finds the tenure of elected officials uncertain and the legitimacy of public administration suspect, the visible portrayal of exemplary citizen virtues may serve as a timely reminder to all that, more so than any other regime, a democratic republic is ultimately and fundamentally dependent on the core values possessed by its citizenry.

The Three-Legged Stool of Voter Engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-56
Author(s):  
Adelaide K. Sandler ◽  
Mary E. Hylton ◽  
Jason Ostrander ◽  
Tanya R. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Past ◽  
Voting Decisions

Disparities in voter turnout have increased significantly over the past four decades. Members of historically oppressed groups, those who are low-income, and or who have lower levels of education vote at significantly lower rates than white, wealthy and or more educated community members. These disparities correlate directly to political power and the eventual allocation of resources by elected officials. Therefore, eliminating these disparities through targeted voter engagement with client groups is particularly important for the profession of social work. This article describes the conceptualization of voter engagement as a three-legged stool, consisting of voter registration, regular voting, and basing voting decisions on self-interest.Without attention to all three legs, the potential for generating political power collapses, resulting in minimal influence on elected officials.

scholarly journals “Mostly Rich White Men, Nothing in Common”: Latino Views on Political (Under) Representation in the Trump Era

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422199676
Author(s):  
Cristina Mora ◽  
Julie A. Dowling ◽  
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
White Men ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
Representative Process ◽  
Depth Interviews

The idea of U.S. democracy rests on the assumption that all citizens will see their issues and needs reflected in elected officials. Yet, historically this has not been the case, as racialized minorities have been excluded and systematically marginalized from the representative process. Today, nonwhite populations remain significantly underrepresented in federal and state governments. Although scholars have examined the effects and mechanics of ethnoracial political representation, less is known about how individuals from minoritized populations perceive and make sense of political (under)representation. Drawing on a novel data set of 71 in-depth interviews with Latinos in the Chicagoland area and the San Francisco Bay, this article examines Latino understandings of representation. Our findings show that respondents view Latinos and other “people of color” as largely underrepresented amid an exceedingly white federal government. Yet Latino sentiments on the issue go beyond race, as respondents contend that class and a record of experience advocating on behalf of immigrant and working-class communities also matters for feeling represented by elected officials. Our findings make a case for bridging the sociological literature on racialization and political theories on representation, and have implications for understanding broader notions of political belonging and government trust.

The Missions of Autonomous Public Libraries from the Point of View of Quebec Municipal Elected Officials: An Analysis of Discourses

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Gazo
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Principal Objective

The principal objective of this thesis is to understand, via the discourses, the point of view of the Québécois municipal elected officials on the missions of the autonomous public libraries as well as the distance between these discourses and the practices of the libraries at the local level.L'objectif principal de cette thèse est de comprendre, grâce aux discours, le point de vue des élus municipaux du Québec quant aux missions des bibliothèques publiques autonomes ainsi que l'écart entre ces discours et les pratiques des bibliothèques à l'échelle locale. 

scholarly journals Locus of Control, Sources of Motivation, and Mental Boundaries as Antecedents of Leader–Member Exchange Quality

2010 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Barbuto ◽  
Dayna Finch Weltmer ◽  
Lisa A. Pennisi
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Leader Member Exchange ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Internal Motivation ◽  
Direct Reports ◽  
Member Exchange

In this study were examined leaders' and members' scores on locus of control, sources of motivation, and mental boundaries to predict the quality of leader–member exchanges. 80 elected officials and their 388 direct reports were sampled in a field study. Analysis indicated followers' scores on locus of control, leaders' scores of self-concept internal motivation, leaders' scores on locus of control, and followers' rated goal-internalization motivation were positively related to leader–member exchanges. Implications and directions for research are discussed.

scholarly journals Looking Like a Winner: Candidate Appearance and Electoral Success in New Democracies

2010 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chappell Lawson ◽  
Gabriel S. Lenz ◽  
Andy Baker ◽  
Michael Myers
Keyword(s):  
Racial Differences ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Snap Judgments

A flurry of recent studies indicates that candidates who simply look more capable or attractive are more likely to win elections. In this article, the authors investigate whether voters' snap judgments of appearance travel across cultures and whether they influence elections in new democracies. They show unlabeled, black-and-white pictures of Mexican and Brazilian candidates' faces to subjects living in America and India, asking them which candidates would be better elected officials. Despite cultural, ethnic, and racial differences, Americans and Indians agree about which candidates are superficially appealing (correlations ranging from .70 to .87). Moreover, these superficial judgments appear to have a profound influence on Mexican and Brazilian voters, as the American and Indian judgments predict actual election returns with surprising accuracy. These effects, the results also suggest, may depend on the rules of the electoral game, with institutions exacerbating or mitigating the effects of appearance.

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