New trends of public affairs management at the EU level

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rinus van Schendelen
Keyword(s):  
Public Affairs ◽  
Public Affairs Management ◽  
The Eu

Consumer campaigns in corporate public affairs management

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inga Schlichting
Keyword(s):  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Expert Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regional Energy ◽  
Climate Regulation ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Public Affairs Management

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use expert interviews with communication managers of the German energy industry to analyze the strategic aims and challenges of consumer campaigns as a relatively new phenomenon in German public affairs management. The analysis is based on structuration theory, which is used as a theoretical framework. This framework helps to conceptualize the different logics of action within non-public and public paths of public affairs management, their stakeholders and respective instruments. Design/methodology/approach – Expert interviews with German public affairs managers from multinational and regional energy corporations as well as industry associations were conducted regarding their communication in the context of climate regulation. Based on this data, the study reconstructs manager’s strategic considerations about why to engage in consumer campaigns, and analyses the challenges they see with them, and the strategies they employ to handle these. Findings – Managers perceive the importance of the public path of regulative intervention as growing along with a strong media orientation of political authorities. Against this backdrop they describe the bypassing of critical journalists and the engaging of critical individuals and minorities as the strategic aims of consumer campaigns. They portray a lack of credibility as the main challenge of such campaigns – and relativising the corporation’s societal efforts as well as allowing public critique as most promising strategies to handle this challenge. Originality/value – The contribution of the study is twofold: first, it adds to the scientific analysis of consumer campaigns as a rather new phenomenon in German public affairs management. Second, practitioners may utilize the results as impulses for their own communicative strategies in the context of public affairs management.

scholarly journals The Legal-Theoretical Terms of Citizen Participation in the Administration of Public Affairs in the Slovak Republic

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-175
Author(s):  
Eleonóra Kováčová
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The State ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The level of development of every country is reflected in constitutional regulation and consequent laws that regulate citizens’ rights to participate in the administration of public affairs. The Constitution of the Slovak Republic and related constitutional laws establish the democratic and constitutional basis of the legal state of the Slovak Republic. The establishment of the Slovak Republic in 1993 required reformulating and enacting all rights and symbols of the state. The principle “the state’s power derives from the citizens” is embedded in the Constitution. However, doubts are currently being raised as to whether the citizens participate in the administration of public affairs in the estimated range and in the appropriate manner as it is embedded in the Constitution of the Slovak Republic. The scope of the article is extensive, due to the character of the selected problems. This also affected the main goal of the article. Since the aim is considerably large, it was necessary to define several partial objectives. At the same time, it was desirable to examine other indicators that contributed to the main aim. The aim of the article was to summarize, analyze and categorize the available facts about the legal-theoretical terms for the participation of citizens in public life in the conditions of the Slovak Republic, as well as within the EU.

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