Does Policy Communication During COVID work?

Policing in the United States has a racist history, with negative implications for its legitimacy among African Americans today. Legitimacy is important for policing's effective operations. Community policing may improve policing's legitimacy but is difficult to implement with fidelity and does not address history. An apology for policing's racist history may work as a legitimizing supplement to community policing. On the other hand, an apology may be interpreted as words without changes in practices. Using a survey vignette experiment on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to sample African Americans, this research tests the legitimizing effect of a supplemental apology for historical police racism during a community policing policy announcement. Statistical findings suggest that supplementing the communication with an apology imparted little to no additional legitimacy on policing among respondents. Qualitative data suggested a rationale: Apologies need not indicate future equitable behavior or policy implementation, with implementation itself seeming crucial for police legitimacy improvements.

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Gap Analysis of Higher Agricultural Education Competencies among the Students for Industrial and Farmers’ Needs

Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension Economics & Sociology ◽

10.9734/ajaees/2020/v38i730377 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 75-83

Author(s):

Manmeet Kaur ◽

Anupam Anand

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Government Policy ◽

Agricultural Education ◽

Gap Analysis ◽

Market Place ◽

Initial Attempt ◽

Policy Communication ◽

Managerial Competency ◽

Agriculture Curriculum ◽

Insight Into

The study was conducted to outline competencies relevant to the need of farmers and industries present in an agriculture graduate for carrying out their assigned duties. As inferred by mean score of the desired status, the managerial competency was identified to be the most needed one among the agricultural graduates as perceived by the students followed by entrepreneurial, extension skills, technical, market/understanding government policy, communication/ICT and personal competency. The findings of the study will aid higher education planners in India to develop curriculum to prepare and train future agricultural graduates to educate, inform and entertain farmers in an efficient way and fulfil the requirements of the job as required by the industries in an agriculture graduates. Specifically, the research sought to determine students and farmers perceptions of essential competencies needed by agri-graduates enrolled in the agriculture curriculum. The study provides for an initial attempt to gain insight into how higher agricultural education institutions can revitalize their curricula to better prepare their students for the market place and to keep pace with the changing nature of the environment around them.

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A Text Mining Analysis of Central Bank Monetary Policy Communication in Nigeria

Central Bank of Nigeria Journal of Applied Statistics ◽

10.33429/cjas.10219.3/6 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 73-107

Author(s):

Mohammed M. Tumala ◽

Babatunde S. Omotosho

Keyword(s):

Monetary Policy ◽

Text Mining ◽

Central Bank ◽

Communication Strategy ◽

Central Bank Communication ◽

Monetary Policy Committee ◽

Textual Data ◽

Policy Communication ◽

Policy Objectives ◽

Monetary Policy Transparency

This paper employs text-mining techniques to analyse the communication strategy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) during the period 2004-2019. Since the policy communique released after each meeting of the CBN’s monetary policy committee (MPC) represents an important tool of central bank communication, we construct a corpus based on 87 policy communiques with a total of 123, 353 words. Having processed the textual data into a form suitable for analysis, we examined the readability, sentiments, and topics of the policy documents. While the CBN’s communication has increased substantially over the years, implying increased monetary policy transparency; the computed Coleman and Liau readability index shows that the word and sentence structures of the policy communiques have become more complex, thus reducing its readability. In terms of monetary policy sentiments, we find an average net score of -10.5 per cent, reflecting the level of policy uncertainties faced by the MPC over the sample period. In addition, our results indicate that the topics driving the linguistic contents of the communiques were influenced by the Bank’s policy objectives as well as the nature of shocks hitting the economy per period.

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