scholarly journals The Issue-Attention Cycle and Public Policy in the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Park Kimuck ◽  
T Edward ◽  
Jr Jennings
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Issue Attention ◽  
The Government

Four decades ago, Anthony Downs offered a compelling picture of the public policy issue-attention cycle. This paper offers a systematic test of how well 50 social issues in the United States fit the model over an extended period of time. A total of 29 issues that fit Downs???s model are analyzed in order to test Downs???s theory that an increase in public interest in an issue increases the government???s efforts to address the issue. The results were quite mixed. For 11 issues, there was a positive relationship between the level of media attention and the number of bills passed. This provides partial support for Downs???s theory. Downs postulated that state intervention occurs when there is a high level of public concern. On the other hand, the results also reveal that a large number of policies were implemented when the level of media attention was not at its peak, resulting in either no relationship between attention and legislation or a negative relationship.

The NGOization of Refugee Resettlement

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-91
Author(s):  
Jennifer Erickson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Refugee Resettlement ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Migration

This chapter explains the policies, politics, and everyday practices of the New American Services. It highlights the tensions surrounding citizenship and the role that nongovernmental (or nonprofit) organizations play in Fargo under neoliberalism by analyzing these practices in terms of the “NGOization” of refugee resettlement. The chapter defines NGOization as the proliferation of NGOs under neoliberalism as extensions, or new faces, of the state. It views NGOs from a feminist's lens, and challenges the master narrative that refugee resettlement was purely humanitarian or simply unaccountable. The chapter provides an overview of everyday resettlement practices and beliefs about resettlement staff, and how their work can be interpreted in regard to the larger social issues laid out in this book: race, citizenship, and diversity. It also talks about the Cooperative Agreement between the Government of the United States (the State Department and the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration) and VOLAGS or voluntary agencies.

Determinants of support for government involvement in obesity control among American adults

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 785-796
Author(s):  
Ami R Moore ◽  
Foster Amey ◽  
Elias Mpofu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
The United States ◽  
Party Affiliation ◽  
Obesity Control ◽  
The Government

Abstract Obesity takes a substantial toll on society as a whole. Obesity and its health-related complications contribute significantly to healthcare costs and negatively affects almost every aspect of human life. It is therefore reasonable for the government to be involved in finding solutions to control the epidemic. This article examined factors that influence support for government intervention in the obesity epidemic in the United States. We used data from Obesity in the United States: Public Perceptions, a survey of a nationally representative sample of American adults. We conducted OLS regression analysis, to understand how three main covariates that described beliefs about causes of obesity and a series of controls impact support for government intervention in obesity control. There was a significant negative relationship between support for government intervention and beliefs about causes of obesity. Also, political ideology and party affiliation significantly influenced support for government intervention. For instance, while Democrats were more supportive of government interventions to control obesity, Republicans were not supportive of such intervention. Additionally, race and environmental characteristics of place of residence significantly influenced support for government intervention. Further, there were significant joint effects of political affiliation, race, and weight status on support for government intervention. Unlike previous studies, we find that one of the important factors that drive people to either support or abhor government intervention is the perception of what causes obesity. It is important that public health officials and other stakeholders understand the intricacies of public support for obesity control.

Red, White, and “Big Blue”: IBM and the Business-Government Interface in the United States, 1956–2000

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
David Hart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Government ◽  
Personalized Approach ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
External Forces ◽  
The U.S

This article describes the evolution of IBM's effort to manage its relationships with the U.S. government from the time that Thomas Watson, Jr. became CEO. While the Watson family controlled the firm, the family members served as the main bridges between IBM and the government. This personalized approach began to give way in the 1960s, as the intensity and scope of pressure from the firm's political environment grew beyond the capability of any individual to handle. During the 1970s and 1980s, IBM constructed a managerial hierarchy, with a newly opened Washington office at its center, which could gather more detailed intelligence and execute more sophisticated political strategies. The firm's crisis in the early 1990s provoked a second major restructuring of the interface, as IBM became more of a Washington “special interest.” Yet, some traces of the Watson imprint remained, even in the Gerstner era. Tracing IBM's evolution helps us to understand better the broader interactions between U.S. firms and their environments in this period. These interactions entailed adaptation by firms to environmental change but also efforts by firms to exert control over external forces, including public policy.

Government Corporations; a Focus of Policy and Administration, I

1949 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 899-921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall E. Dimock
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Corporation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Corporations

The government corporation has become a familiar device of public administration all over the world; and yet in some countries, and especially in the United States, uncertainty as to its distinctive purpose and underlying principles seems to grow, rather than to diminish, as the public corporation becomes older and more extensively used. Lack of interest and research cannot be blamed, because in recent years the degree of concentration in this area has probably been relatively as great as in any other sphere of political science. The basic explanation is that administrative formulas and management principles are rarely, if ever, capable of immunization against group pressures and public policy controls, which bend administration to their own designs, sometimes in conformity with what the impartial experts consider sound principle and practice, but just as often in knowing disregard of such considerations and in a determined effort to support their own interests and economic viewpoints.

Perceptions of social work students in Mexico and the United States regarding the role of the government in addressing social issues: Implications for social work education

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 1230-1244
Author(s):  
David Becerra ◽  
Jason Castillo ◽  
Maria Rosario Silva Arciniega
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
The Government ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Role Of The Government

The purpose of this article was to examine social work students’ perceptions of the role of the government in addressing social issues among social work students from the United States and Mexico. Data were drawn from a sample of 893 social work students from universities in the United States and Mexico, in the fall of 2010. Multivariate ordinary least squares regressions indicated that compared with social work students in the United States, students in Mexico reported significantly higher beliefs that government should do more to lessen social gaps, and ensure housing, employment, health insurance, basic necessities, an adequate standard of living, and equal opportunities.

scholarly journals State Intervention/Bailout and Economic Stabilisation in Nigeria: Some Lessons from the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Deinibiteim Monimah Harry ◽  
Winston Madume
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Specific Time ◽  
The Us ◽  
Nigerian Government ◽  
The Government

Abstract The study examined the nature of state intervention during economic and/or financial crisis, focusing on Nigeria and US. These two nations have embarked on various kinds of bailouts to stabilize their economies and move their nations on the path of economic recovery and growth. However, the bailout effort is more successful in the US than Nigeria. This is largely due to the approach adopted in these countries. Thus, the main objective of this paper is to ascertain the extent to which government invention has helped stabilize the Nigerian economy, when compared with the experience of the United States. The study revealed that in the US every state intervention/ bailout is approved by congress through legislation, therefore well-guided in its administration or execution, with specific time lines. On the other hand, in Nigeria bailouts are by “executive fiat”, as a result they suffer from poor execution. Hence, the paper concluded that state intervention/bailout in Nigeria has not been very successful because of the approach adopted by the government. The study recommended that subsequently, every bailout from the Nigerian government should be a product of an Act of Parliament, bailout schemes should have specific tools for measuring performance and be guided by specific lines, among others.

scholarly journals From Good Time Girl to Damsel in Distress: Protecting the British War Bride in the United States, 1944–1950

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Gail Savage
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The United States ◽  
Good Time ◽  
Legal Advice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
War Bride

During the Second World War, the United Kingdom became an epicenter of transnational, especially transatlantic, marriages, but not all these marriages proved successful. As one disappointed English war bride on her way back home expressed herself, she was “Too shocked to bring her baby up on the black tracks of a West Virginia mining town as against her own home in English countryside of rose-covered fences.” This essay examines the government program developed to provide financial aid and legal advice to British women estranged from or abandoned by their American husbands from the passage of the 1944 Matrimonial Causes (War Marriages) Act to its winding down in 1950. The analysis draws upon a wide range of documents to survey the formulation and implementation of the government response and to consider some illustrative cases dealt with by British consular officials in the United States. These examples illuminate the gap between human behavior envisioned by policy-makers and the more varied behavior encountered by those who carried out the duties charged to them. The cases thus represent the nexus between state intervention and the individual experience of larger-scale social dynamics set off by war and the global movement of populations.

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