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Public Agenda (public + agenda)

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Humanities and Social Sciences33%

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Presidential Rhetoric and the Public Agenda: Constructing the War on Drugs , By Andrew B. Whitford and Jeff Yates

PRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2010
Brian Anse Patrick
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Welfare in wild-capture marine fisheries

JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY, Issue 10 2009
J. D. Metcalfe
In contrast to terrestrial farming or aquaculture, little, if any, welfare regulation exists that constrains how fishes are handled or killed in wild-capture marine fisheries. Given that welfare in wild-capture fisheries is moving further up the public agenda, an unbiased, dispassionate account of what happens to fishes caught in wild-capture marine fisheries is needed so as to identify where the main animal welfare issues exist. [source]

The relationship between NGOS and businesses in the public arena: An empirical analysis for Spain

JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, Issue 1 2009
Carmen Valor
At the beginning of this century, corporate social responsibility was included in the public agenda. In certain countries, policy-making takes place in semi-public forums, in which NGOs are asked to participate. However, a different situation may be found in other countries. This paper analyses the relationship between businesses and NGOs in the public arena in Spain. By applying grounded theory, the authors summarize this relationship in the dynamics of approach-withdrawal. Firms have pushed to withdraw Advocacy NGOs from public forums, whose main purpose was policy-making. The explicit argument to justify this collective decision is the lack of foundational legitimacy of NGOs. Firms understand that these NGOs are not legitimized to be a counterbalancing force of corporations. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Connecting a university system to the public agenda: The roundtable on higher education

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION, Issue 135 2006
Edward V. Dunn
North Dakota connects the collective power and potential of college and university systems to the economic development, education, and training needs of the state. [source]

The Cinderella of public health news: physical activity coverage in Australian newspapers, 1986-2006

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, Issue 2 2009
Josephine Chau
Abstract Objective: This research examined trends in physical activity reporting by Australian newspapers, and described these trends compared to coverage of obesity and tobacco. Method: The Factiva database was searched for articles published in major Australian metropolitan newspapers (1986-2006) that mentioned physical activity, obesity or tobacco smoking. Standardised frequencies compared the three health issues, and trends in reporting were estimated by using standard multiple regression models to fit linear splines with fixed knots at years 1991, 1996 and 2001 to the standardised data. Results: Physical activity received the least coverage 1986-2006, appearing in 4,988 articles, compared with 15,410 and 63,738 articles for obesity and tobacco respectively. Between 1996 and 2000, there were significant increases in the rate of coverage of physical activity (,=0.21; p<0.01), obesity (,=0.13; p<0.01) and tobacco (,=0.24; p<0.0001). From 2001 to 2006 the rate of physical activity coverage was relatively steady, while the obesity coverage rate increased dramatically (,=0.34; p<0.0001), and tobacco coverage rate slowed (,=-0.33; p<0.0001). Conclusions: This study demonstrates that physical activity reporting in the media has increased, but received less attention than obesity and tobacco. Implications: Physical activity advocates face the challenge of highlighting the newsworthiness of physical activity and raising the issue higher on the public agenda. [source]

Early childhood services: evolution or revolution?

CHILDREN & SOCIETY, Issue 3 2003
Gillian Pugh
This paper considers what progress has been made towards the development of a coherent national policy on services for young children under eight and their families. Since the election of a ,new' Labour government in 1997, services for children and families have been higher on the public agenda than at any time in living memory. Much has been achieved, through additional funding, expansion of services, and a more coordinated approach to service provision. But there is still a severe shortage of day care places for children under three, too few appropriately trained staff, a heavy reliance on short term funding, and no agreement on the overall policy on and purpose of early childhood services. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]