scholarly journals Making Austerity Popular: The Media and Mass Attitudes toward Fiscal Policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 340-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Barnes ◽  
Timothy Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
The Media ◽  
Mass Attitudes

Hard Issues, Core Values and Vertical Constraint: The Case of Nuclear Power

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip H. Pollock ◽  
Stuart A. Lilie ◽  
M. Elliot Vittes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Use Values ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mass Attitudes

Under what conditions are mass attitudes towards particular issues ‘vertically’ constrained by core cultural values? Vertical constraint is shaped by three related variables: the objective content of the issue, the way the issue is framed by elites and the individual's level of attentiveness to the controversy. Some issues are ‘easy’. They so permeate social discourse that people encounter, often without wanting to, many social agents offering shortcuts for the vertical, values-to-issue link. Most issues, however, are ‘hard’. Arcane in content and bereft of vigorous mediation, hard issues are more difficult for individuals to tie to core values. As the inferential connection between value and issue lengthens, and as social agents become fewer and more remote, an individual's ability to use values to interpret issues will increasingly depend on whether the decision makers, activists and other elites directly involved in the debate can create a connection and, of course, on whether the individual is paying attention. An analysis of the nuclear power controversy, a highly complex technical issue, reveals that a value-based interpretation favoured by elites and promoted by the media is faithfully reflected in how the mass public understands the issue. Furthermore, non-elites who are more attuned to political life are more polarized on the basis of these core values.

scholarly journals Making Austerity Popular: The Media and Mass Attitudes Towards Fiscal Policy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Hicks ◽  
Lucy Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Topic Model ◽  
Party Identification ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Election Study ◽  
Government Deficits ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Media ◽  
Mass Attitudes ◽  
Structural Topic Model

What explains variation in individual attitudes towards government deficits? Although macroeconomic stance is of paramount importance for contemporary governments, our understanding of its popular politics is limited. We argue that popular attitudes regarding austerity are influenced by media (and wider elite) framing. Information necessary to form preferences on the deficit is not provided neutrally, and its provision shapes how voters understand their interests. A wide range of evidence from Britain between 2010 and 2015 supports this claim. In the British Election Study, deficit attitudes vary systematically with the source of news consumption, even controlling for party identification. A structural topic model of two major newspapers' reporting shows that content varies systematically with respect to coverage of public borrowing --- in ways that intuitively accord with the attitudes of their readerships. Finally, a survey experiment suggests causation from media to attitudes: deficit preferences change based on the presentation of deficit information.

scholarly journals The impact of fiscal councils on the budgetary consolidation

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ante Žigman ◽  
Martina Jergović
Keyword(s):  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Fiscal Rules ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Finance Management ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Media ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The Impact

Fiscal councils are independent institutions that play an important role in execution of fiscal rules and budgetary discipline through their realistic and unbiased macroeconomic and budgetary analysis and projections. It is important that the fiscal councils have easy access to the media to ensure that their analyses reach the wider public, and influence creators of fiscal policy. This paper analyzes the influence of fiscal councils on budget balance and public debt in period before and after financial crisis. The member states that had functioning fiscal councils before the financial crisis, on average, manage their public finances better than those who founded them after the beginning of crisis. Additionally, supervision of the enforcements of fiscal rules from fiscal boards is already showing positive results in this short time period. Fiscal councils are extremely important to ensure a healthy basis for conducting fiscal policy and to decrease the influence of politics on public finance management.

Politics, Institutions, and Fiscal Policy: Deficits and Surpluses in Federated States

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 713-715
Author(s):  
Ian Burns ◽  
Henry Jacek
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Incumbent Party ◽  
Political Variables ◽  
Economic Considerations

Politics, Institutions, and Fiscal Policy: Deficits and Surpluses in Federated States, Louis M. Imbeau and Francois Petry (editors), Studies in Public Policy; Toronto: Lexington Books, 2004, pp. 239.Despite the continual attention by the public, the media and politicians on governmental deficits, surpluses and governmental debt over the past decade, the political science literature in this area is sparse. When political scientists do venture into this area, they are unduly influenced by economic considerations rather than using political-institutional explanations. Happily this volume avoids the usual approaches and instead emphasizes political variables. In particular, the editors and authors highlight the importance of the proximity of elections, the ideology of the incumbent party, and the severity of established anti-deficit policies.

Using the scanning electron microscope for failure analysis of high density magnetic media

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 392-393
Author(s):  
Evelyn R. Ackerman ◽  
Gary D. Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscope ◽  
Failure Analysis ◽  
High Density ◽  
Magnetic Media ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Operating Environments ◽  
The Media ◽  
Scanning Electron

Advancements in state of the art high density Head/Disk retrieval systems has increased the demand for sophisticated failure analysis methods. From 1968 to 1974 the emphasis was on the number of tracks per inch. (TPI) ranging from 100 to 400 as summarized in Table 1. This emphasis shifted with the increase in densities to include the number of bits per inch (BPI). A bit is formed by magnetizing the Fe203 particles of the media in one direction and allowing magnetic heads to recognize specific data patterns. From 1977 to 1986 the tracks per inch increased from 470 to 1400 corresponding to an increase from 6300 to 10,800 bits per inch respectively. Due to the reduction in the bit and track sizes, build and operating environments of systems have become critical factors in media reliability.Using the Ferrofluid pattern developing technique, the scanning electron microscope can be a valuable diagnostic tool in the examination of failure sites on disks.

Spreading the Word: Raise Your Profession's Profile With Local Angles on National News

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2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Know How ◽  
The Media

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