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The Brass Tacks of Building Citizen Centered Policies and Services
Almost everywhere, political leaders don't work with the strange animal known as 'the Public'. They work with 'key stakeholders' when they have to. And they prefer to decide a policy then 'consult'...
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Indirect Media Effects: The Unknown Quantity in Policy Making
When you're advocating for a better understanding of the media's role in policy making and governance reform, nothing is as disheartening as a well done study that questions the media's role on the...
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Public Opinion and Policy Making in Less Settled Polities
In the last post on this Blog, my colleague, Anne-Katrin, discusses John Kingdon's Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, a very infl
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Public Opinion, Pluralism and Public Policy-Making
As I sat down to finish writing my second blog entry for “People, Spaces, and Deliberation” -- which was to be a discussion of two contrasting approaches to deliberation in the European Union in 2007...
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Democracy without the People?
"Unless mass views have some place in the shaping of policy, all the talk about democracy is nonsense" - V.O. Key said that in 1961 in his book Public Opinion and American Democracy. It reminded me of...
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