A Theoretical Analysis of the “Green Lobby”

1985 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Kerry Smith
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Imperfect Information ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
Efficient Outcome ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Public Interest Groups ◽  
Benefits And Costs

The purpose of this article is to develop a theoretical framework for analyzing why individuals support private environmental “public interest” groups. The model attempts to integrate past contributions which have argued that these decisions could be explained by one of several factors, including: bounded rationality and imperfect information (Moe, 1980); the features of the public goods provided (or influenced by) these groups (Mitchell, 1979); the existence of a disequilibrium in households' demands for public goods (Weisbrod, 1977); or as a response to contract failures (Hansmann, 1980). The article uses a theoretical framework originally developed to explain individuals' decisions to join private clubs and specifies the conditions for the efficient provision of access to different types of private, nonprofit groups. By describing the optimal access conditions as if individuals could be coordinated to assure this efficient outcome, the model provides insights into the benefits and costs associated with membership in the environmental groups in practice.

PR for the Public Interest

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-126
Author(s):  
Melissa Aronczyk ◽  
Maria I. Espinoza
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Business Associations ◽  
Single Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
Green Business

Chapter 4, PR for the “Public Interest,” reviews the endeavors which allowed industrial interests to promote their anti-environmental agenda as rational and reasonable. It also allowed them to advocate against the passage of further legislation. By advancing a rhetoric of “compromising for the common good,” PR actors helped diffuse the appearance of adversity in a 1970s and 1980s context of public concern over environmental damage, and cemented public relations as a legitimate profession with specialized skills of negotiation and dispute resolution. Throughout the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, as intensified battles over environmental futures were waged between environmental groups and business associations, PR actors found ways to create and manage influence in political contexts. PR consultants developed single-issue coalitions, public-private partnerships, green business networks, and other multiple-member groups, along with multi-pronged media strategies, to advance the idea of plurality.

scholarly journals Hybridisation, personalisation and tribuneship in the political interview

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hutchby
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
The Political ◽  
Broadcast News ◽  
The Public ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Questions And Answers

This article discusses elements of hybridisation in political interviewing within the contemporary environment of broadcast news. Beginning from a conversation analytic perspective, four types of political interview programmes are described in terms of their different approaches to questions and answers; opinions and arguments; and neutrality, agency and advocacy. The analysis then turns to the different ways in which ‘tribuneship’ is manifested in different types of interview, comparing the representation of the public interest as found in both neutralistic and adversarial interviewing with the type of personalised and ‘non-neutral’ tribuneship found in hybrid political interviews.

scholarly journals THE PRINCIPLE OF EXPEDIENCY OF LAW INTERPRETATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
S. V. Pryima
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Positive Result ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
The Public ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Judicial Procedures ◽  
Optimal Set

In the article was investigated the principle of expediency of law interpretation. It is noted that the term “expediency” is close in meaning to the terms “optimality”, “rationality”, “efficiency”. Due to this the principle of expediency is seen in a general way as the principle which requires that the subject should achieve a useful, positive result with applying the optimal set of methods. It is established that the principle of expediency is realized in different branches and institutions of law. Particularly, in the civil procedural law such judicial procedures are based on this principle as examination, storage and provision of evidence, the appointment and realization of expertise, the association and dissociation of claims. It is also noted that the principle of expediency is important in punishing a person, in other words, it is the basis of legal responsibility. In this sphere, it consists in the individualization of punitive measures or punishment depending on the gravity of the offense, taking into account the offender's personality, his welfare and the circumstances of the action. The principle of expediency also means that the chosen measure is relevant to the purposes of responsibility. It is noted that the principle of expediency makes the requirements for conducting different types of legal activity – law-making, law-enforcement, and therefore, it is one of the main principles of law interpretative activity. It is emphasized that the basic idea of this principle is that the act should not be interpreted in the sense which makes it aimless, so, the act cannot be interpreted beyond the purpose for which it was adopted. In the article is also argued that a particular method of setting of a goal of a legal norm is a teleological (purposeful) mean of interpretation. The requirements of the principle of expediency include the aspiration of the public interest and the obligation to apply the verification of interpretative conclusions. The principle of expediency of law interpretation is defined as the interpretative principle, the essence of which is the aspiration of the subject of interpretation to achieve the goal, to obtain a useful, positive result from their activities by using the optimal set of methods for this purpose.

Without Restraint: Scandal and Politics in America

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian E. Zelizer
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
National Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Interest Groups ◽  
Television Coverage ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the relationship between politics and scandal throughout American history. Scandals had been part of American politics since the revolution, but they had never so pervasive as in the last three decades of the twentieth century. They had become integral to partisan strategy, political reform, and the public perception of government. The chapter first considers the role of scandal in national politics in the early postwar era, 1945–1964, before discussing the efforts of public interest groups in collaboration with liberal Democrats to put corruption on the national agenda. It then examines the politics of reform between 1972 and 1978, along with the change in political style that gradually encouraged the latent tendency of democratic politics to veer into scandal during the period 1978–1992. It also looks at television coverage of scandals and the impeachment of Bill Clinton and concludes with some reflections on the future of scandal politics.

Justice

2012 ◽  
pp. 140-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Marcuse
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Public ◽  
Benefits And Costs

This article, which discusses justice as an objective of urban planning, mentions that the planning profession's Code of Ethics in the United States states that planners should serve the public interest. It also enumerates the reasons why planners should be concerned with justice. These include the fact that planning is an action of government which necessarily affects the distribution of goods, services, and, more generally, life opportunities among individuals and groups, and that planners' actions focus on the distribution of space and thus the distribution of its benefits and costs.

scholarly journals A pragma-syntactic analysis of slogans on t-shirts

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-94
Author(s):  
Michael Alozie Nwala
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
The Public ◽  
Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Different Types

The T-shirts and the slogans on them are used to achieve different discourse and communicative themes. The T-shirts help to describe people, events, positions and situations. This article written the confines of the theoretical framework of multimodal discourse analysis and the qualitative design, investigates five different types of T-shirts. The T-shirts and the inscriptions on them as exemplified in the themes of readiness, position and desire, happiness and celebration, and protest are used to describe the wearers, address situations and pass information to the public. The paper therefore concludes that T-shirts and the slogans scripted on them perform different types of illoucutionary actions which cause different forms perlocutionary reactions Key Words: T-shirts, slogans, themes, multimodal, cloth; communication

scholarly journals Assessing ‘good governance’:‘scientific’ measurement and political discourse

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
State Authority

The idea of governance – as distinct from government – has become intellectually fashionable in academic circles over the past decade or so, constituting a new conceptual paradigm that embodies ideas about the dispersal and fragmentation of formerly centralised state authority, the increasing involvement of civil society in the delivery of public goods and services, and the networked collaboration of a wide range of governmental and nongovernmental bodies in the pursuit of public purposes and the public interest.

Good and Evil in the Chairmen's 'Boiler Plate': An Analysis of Corporate Visions of the 1970s

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie E. Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Public Interest Groups ◽  
The Government ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The U.S

Boiler plates, the chairman's message that begins each corporation's annual report, provide a reflection of the self-image of American big business. This paper uses the method of dramatism for discovering and interpreting corporate dramas inherent in the language of the boiler plates of the Dow Jones Industrials. The U.S. economy of the 1970s provides the dramatic setting, with the company as hero, the government as villain and public interest groups as minor players. The overriding corporate drama can be traced to the archetypal drama of pure competition. Understanding corporate dramas allows us to see how companies create a shared rhetorical vision to unify their shareholders with management and employees, label actions as good or evil, and influence the public by putting forward a positive corporate self-image.

scholarly journals The Service of Documents in Administrative Procedural Law – A Comparative Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-131
Author(s):  
Ines Golob
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Procedure ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Uniform Manner ◽  
Administrative Proceedings

This article presents a comparative and empirical analysis of the service or the delivery of documents in procedures, as the key procedural action to constitute legal effects in legal relationships. In Slovenia, service is largely defined by the three main procedural laws – the General Administrative Procedure Act, the Criminal Procedure Act, and the Contentious Civil Procedure Act. These relate to different types and specifics of relationships; for instance, in administrative proceedings, the public interest prevails over private ones. The presented research, applying predominantly normative and comparative methods and analysis of case law, aims to show the importance of the specificity of the different areas and of the rules of service in different proceedings. The results of the research suggest that in certain cases service should be regulated in a uniform manner. Yet the specific aims of various legal relations require individual solutions. Thus, the article opens up grounds for future comparative research and practical regulatory improvements.

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