Media and Agenda Setting: Effects on the Public, Interest Group Leaders, Policy Makers, and Policy

Cook, Fay Lomax; Tyler, Tom R.; Goetz, Edward G.; Gordon, Margaret S.; Protess, David; Leff, D.R.; Molotch, Harvey

doi:10.1086/268764

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“…Mass media strategies have been used in public health to educate and advocate for opinion and behavioural changes at individual, social and community levels. [8][9][10]11 This study indicates that in over 16% of cases, local government officers make real-world health-risk policy decisions based on information reported in the media. Although newspapers reflect community attitudes, actions and (in some cases) opinions, relying on this information is in itself a risky behaviour.…”

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An exploratory study identifying where local government public health decision makers source their evidence for policy

Stoneham

Dodds

2014

Health Prom J of Aust

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Issue addressed: The Western Australian (WA) Public Health Bill will replace the antiquated Health Act 1911. One of the proposed clauses of the Bill requires all WA local governments to develop a Public Health Plan. The Bill states that Public Health Plans should be based on evidence from all levels, including national and statewide priorities, community needs, local statistical evidence, and stakeholder data. Methods: This exploratory study, which targeted 533 WA local government officers, aimed to identify the sources of evidence used to generate the list of public health risks to be included in local government Public Health Plans. Results: The top four sources identified for informing local policy were: observation of the consequences of the risks in the local community (24.5%), statewide evidence (17.6%), local evidence (17.6%) and coverage in local media (16.2%). Conclusions: This study confirms that both hard and soft data are used to inform policy decisions at the local level. Therefore, the challenge that this study has highlighted is in the definition or constitution of evidence. So what?Evidence is critical to the process of sound policy development. This study highlights issues associated with what actually constitutes evidence in the policy development process at the local government level. With the exception of those who work in an extremely narrow field, it is difficult for local government officers, whose role includes policymaking, to read the vast amount of information that has been published in their area of expertise. For those who are committed to the notion of evidence-based policymaking, as advocated within the WA Public Health Bill, this presents a considerable challenge.

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confidence: 87%

An exploratory study identifying where local government public health decision makers source their evidence for policy

Stoneham

Dodds

2014

Health Prom J of Aust

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“…The influence of mass media and journalism on policy in a number of arenas is also well established [44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51]. Perhaps nowhere is this influence more important than when journalists inform the public about hazards; for hazards both commonplace and rare, the mass media is typically the primary source of knowledge for the public [52].…”

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Nuclear Insurance Subsidies Cost from Post-Fukushima Accounting Based on Media Sources

Laureto

Pearce

2016

Sustainability

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Quantification of nuclear liability insurance is difficult without arbitrary liability caps; however, post-mortem calculations can be used to calculate insurance costs. This study analyzes the Fukushima (Daiichi) nuclear power plant disaster to quantify the cost per unit electricity ($/kWh) of nuclear energy from the lifetime of the plant after accounting for the true cost of the liability needed to cover the damages from the nuclear disaster determined from news reports. These costs are then compared to the cost of electricity currently paid by Japanese consumers, and then are aggregated to determine the indirect subsidy for nuclear power providers in both Japan and the USA. The results show that the reported costs of the Fukushima nuclear disaster are $20-525 billion, which results in a real insurance cost from the lifetime of electricity produced at the plants between $0.22-5.78/kWh. These values are far higher than the current insurance costs by Japanese law of $0.01/kWh and even the total costs consumers pay for electricity. Although the spread in the input costs is large and the reported metrics are incomplete, the nuclear insurance subsidy is clearly substantial in Japan and in the USA. Ideally, energy sources should be economically sustainable without the need for a government insurance subsidy. For the electricity market to function effectively and efficiently in all other countries using nuclear power, the insurance costs should be reported accurately and included in nuclear electricity costs without arbitrary government liability caps.

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“…Great importance is the development of the media to generate loyalty of the population (Cook, 1983). Assessing the implementation and use of new information and communication technologies in Tatarstan in the period from 2009 to 2012, it should be noted the progress made by the information society in the region in terms of introducing new standards of broadcast and broadband.…”

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Economic, Social and Environmental Aspects of the Impact of the Universiade - 2013 on Development of Kazan City and Tatarstan Republic

Bagautdinova¹,

Mingazova²,

Zamaletdinov³

et al. 2015

ASS

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The article describes the methodological approaches used to study the influence of major international sporting events on the development of the city and region (on example of XXVII World Summer Universiade which held in the Russian Federation in the city of Kazan in 2013). This paper presents the results of economic, social and environmental consequences for the development of the city of Kazan and Tatarstan. Assessment of impacts is given in an integrated form, with the conclusions of the contradictory effects for the different areas of the city and the region.

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Media and Agenda Setting: Effects on the Public, Interest Group Leaders, Policy Makers, and Policy

Cited by 253 publications

References 9 publications

An exploratory study identifying where local government public health decision makers source their evidence for policy

An exploratory study identifying where local government public health decision makers source their evidence for policy

Nuclear Insurance Subsidies Cost from Post-Fukushima Accounting Based on Media Sources

Economic, Social and Environmental Aspects of the Impact of the Universiade - 2013 on Development of Kazan City and Tatarstan Republic

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