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Jun 19, 2022 · Table 2 presented the major themes discussed by major news outlets in the United States, global news outlets in English-speaking countries, and climate movement actors on Twitter. We found that US news organizations focused coverage on (1) US political discussion such as partisan debates and elections and (2) consequences of climate change, such as disasters surrounding wildfires and water issues.
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- A – Introduction
- B – Political Participation in Postindustrial America
- C – Interest Groups
- D – Social Movements
- E – Citizens
- F – Media
- G – Corporations and Economic Interests
- H – Political Parties and Elections
- I – Governmental Structures and The Policy Process
- J – A Review of Policy Models
In this chapter, we describe state and local government policy processes and the various actors and interests that typically seek to influence those processes. Public policy and the policy process have been defined in the following way by most social scientists that study these phenomena: From this definition of key terms, it is clear that a divers...
Contemporary studies of public participation in postindustrial societies suggest that a new style of politics has emerged over the course of the last several decades.3 This new style of politics is characterized in major part by an expansion of what has been considered appropriate political action. Some scholars who carry out research in this area ...
All postindustrial nations, including the United States, are experiencing explosive growth in the number, scope of concerns, and size of interest groups seeking to influence public policy.16 Community-based interest groups and other grassroots organizations concerned with a variety of public policy issues are variously labeled as public interest gr...
As discussed previously, political scientists have identified two distinct forms of political participation intended to influence public policy — i.e., the “elite-directed” and “elite challenging” modes of political action. Contemporary studies of the policy process in postindustrial societies indicate that the elite challenging mode of politics ha...
As discussed previously, there are a variety of ways that citizens can influence state and local policy processes as discussed above — traditional and elite-challenging methods. Traditional methods would include:34 1.voting in elections. 2.working on political campaigns for candidates or political parties, which could include convincing others how ...
The mass media play an important role in state and local government policy processes. In the U.S. “children spend more time in front of television sets than in school,” and more than two-thirds of the people in the country “report they receive all or most of their news from television” – given these facts and given the growth of the electronic mass...
Businesses and multinational corporations are another set of actors that are extremely important in the political life of state and local government. The noted scholar Charles Lindblom argued convincingly that business enjoys a “privileged position” in American politics generally, and in state and local government in particular. In capitalist or ma...
Political parties are important actors in state and local public policy processes throughout the country. Typically, political parties “reflect a political culture with distinct world views” that are organized to “seek power in government.”55While the Founding Fathers tried very hard to insulate the new nation from the development of factions and p...
Parliamentary and separation of powers governments — the former exemplified by most European countries, and the latter by the United States — are the two principal forms of democratic governance in the postindustrial countries. In the U.S. we directly elect state governors and members of our state legislatures. Governors typically have the ability ...
As noted at the outset of this chapter, public policy has been defined by Thomas Dye in the following way: “whatever governments choose to do or not to do.”59 While there is general agreement among social scientists that this is a suitable working definition of public policy, there is considerable controversy regarding just how the policy process w...
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Aug 27, 2024 · The Mass Movement That Never Came. Four years after the “Summer of George Floyd,” the political climate has cooled. Then-Senator Kamala Harris joined fellow Democrats from the House and Senate ...
Recent social movements stand out by their spontaneous nature and lack of stable leadership, raising doubts on their ability to generate political change. This article provides systematic evidence on the effects of protests on public opinion and political attitudes. Drawing on a database covering the quasi-universe of protests held in the United States, we identify 14 social movements that ...
Feb 14, 2024 · Social movement scholars have long inquired into the relationship between movements, news media coverage, and political outcomes. Although media ecosystems and social movement organizing have ...
Mar 27, 2020 · A Social Movement Organisation is a complex structure whose aims coincide with the preferences of a social movement (McCarthy and Zald 1979). Their role is functional to collective action by finding resources, both in terms of money and through the planning of voluntary work by activists (McCarthy and Zald 1987, 19).
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Dec 9, 2021 · It argues that the threat to the U.S. is coming from within, as Republicans aligned with former President Trump work to upend a core of our democracy, that the president is chosen by the will of ...
