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Maguire, Edward, and Devon Johnson. "The structure of public opinion on crime policy: Evidence from seven Caribbean nations." Punishment & Society 17, no. 4 (September 30, 2015): 502–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1462474515604385.
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Black, Lynsey, Lizzie Seal, and Florence Seemungal. "Public opinion on crime, punishment and the death penalty in Barbados." Punishment & Society 22, no. 3 (November 18, 2019): 302–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1462474519881989.
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The bulk of extant research on public opinion on crime and punishment is focused on Global North nations. This article contributes a new perspective to the literature on punitivism by examining public opinion on crime, punishment and the death penalty in Barbados. The article presents insights from exploratory focus group research conducted in Barbados in 2017. These findings are particularly relevant as Barbadian lawmakers navigate reform of the nation’s death penalty law. While the focus groups reveal anxieties that echo those identified in other jurisdictions, related to nostalgia for the past and concern regarding social order for instance, they also demonstrate the specific relevance of time and place. Using approaches from Caribbean Criminology and drawing on post-colonial perspectives, the article examines the context of views on punishment in Barbados, including perceptions of ‘neo-colonial’ interference and concerns about what can be lost in the process of ‘progress’.
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Strate, John M., and Carter A. Wilson. "Public opinion on school choice: The Detroit metropolitan area." Urban Review 25, no. 2 (June 1993): 123–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01137794.
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Zinovyeva, E. S. "Ensuring global cyber-security in the practice of Russian diplomacy." Journal of Law and Administration 17, no. 4 (February 21, 2022): 68–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2073-8420-2021-4-61-68-71.
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Book review: O. A. Melnikova Public Opinion Manipulation and Global Cyber Security. Moscow: Gnosis, 2021 .-- 208 p.Manipulation of public opinion is an important factor in international information security and stability. For many years, the Russian Federation has been supporting the formation of an international information security regime that would combat the entire spectrum of threats in this area, including the problem of manipulating consciousness as an instrument of influencing public opinion and interfering in internal affairs. The monograph under review systematically examines Russia's foreign policy initiatives in this area and describes the impact of manipulation of public opinion on international information security and the national security of the Russian Federation.
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Walter, Aaron T. "Foreign Policy: Public Opinion and Political Legacy." Slovak Journal of Political Sciences 15, no. 3 (July 1, 2015): 202–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sjps-2015-0009.
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Abstract To the degree that public opinion, as domestic variable, influences a leaders decision-making in the area of foreign affairs is significant. Political leaders use public opinion polling to support government position or in attempts to mold policy position(s) in the affirmative. The following article investigates how public opinion affects U.S. presidential foreign policy decisions and to the degree those decisions are the base for political legacy. The theoretical argument is that domestic variables and leaders decisions often act in mutual support of each others in complementary interests and when not the case, it is the leader whose agenda setting or creating a frame impacts public opinion.
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Chudowsky, Victor, and Taras Kuzio. "Does public opinion matter in UkraineŒ The case of foreign policy." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 36, no. 3 (September 1, 2003): 273–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0967-067x(03)00039-4.
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The article critically surveys the impact of domestic public opinion on foreign policy in Ukraine by integrating it within theories of public opinion. Studies of public opinion in Ukraine have not given due weight to the unique characteristics of the Ukrainian ‘public’, which differs greatly from the Western public. Ukrainian society is passive, atomized and its power is ‘submerged’ relative to that of the state. The article argues that public opinion is of minimal importance in the area of foreign policy.
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Baker, Lucinda. "Sobel, The Impact Of Public Opinion On U.S. Foreign Policy Since Vietnam." Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 29, no. 2 (September 1, 2004): 111–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/th.29.2.111-112.
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What influence does public opinion have on policymakers in the area of foreign policy? In The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy Since Vietnam, Richard Sobel studies this question. Sobel is a highly respected author of many articles and books on such diverse issues as civil liberties, immigration policy, public opinion, and foreign policy. He has contributed to numerous publications, including Public Opinion Quarterly, the Chicago Tribune, Political Science Quarterly, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.
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Jacobs, Lawrence R., and Robert Y. Shapiro. "Public Opinion and the New Social History: Some Lessons for the Study of Public Opinion and Democratic Policy-making." Social Science History 13, no. 1 (1989): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200016254.
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The study of mass public opinion has been an important area of social science research, and it has been of particular concern for political scientists, because the relationship between public opinion and government policy is central to theories about democracy and political power (e.g., see Dahl, 1956; Downs, 1957; Devine, 1970; Weissberg, 1976). Our main argument in this essay is that political scientists and others should be open to a variety of approaches in studying trends in public opinion and the relationship between public preferences and government policies, and that they should begin to pay attention to the findings and methods of recent historiography and, especially, the “new social history.”
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Carr, Pamela A., Darlene Mecredy, Robert Goodfellow, and David L. Mowat. "Public Opinion Regarding Smoking in Public Places and Workplaces in the Greater Kingston Area." Canadian Journal of Public Health 89, no. 1 (January 1998): 35–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03405792.
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Chamizo-Sánchez, Rocío, Ruth Gómez de Travesedo-Rojas, and Marta Gil-Ramírez. "Producción científica en Relaciones Públicas a través de las revistas de mayor impacto del Caribe Latinoamericano / Scientific production in Public Relations through the journals with the greatest impact in the Latin American Caribbean." Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas 11, no. 22 (December 23, 2021): 137–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5783/rirp-22-2021-08-137-160.
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Scientific production in Latin America and the Caribbean has experienced great growth in recent years (Álvarez-Muñoz y Pérez-Montoro, 2016; Santa y Herrero, 2010), due in part to the increase in public investment in science in these countries and the indexing of their journals in global (Scopus or Wos) and regional (Latindex or Redalyc) databases of bibliographic references. However, in the area of communication, the publication of academic articles is still embryonic. There are several academic studies (Flores-García y Becerril-García, 2020; López- Ornelas et al., 2017; Rogel-Salazar et al., 2017) that highlight the scarce of disclosure of scientific knowledge in this region, remarking the limited presence of communication journals published in Latin America and indexed in databases. In the specific area of public relations, the conceptualization and recognition of this discipline in the academic and professional field has been increasing since the mid-twentieth century. However, despite the progress experienced, the small number of existing studies on the subject in these journals, justify this investigation line. In this sense, this research, within the framework of bibliometric studies, proposes to determine the position occupied by public relations in the academic production about communication of the main journals of the Latin American Caribbean in the last ten years (2010-2020); as well as analyzing the main characteristics of these publications by examining the areas of knowledge of the published texts, the institutions from which they come or its authorship, among other aspects such as the object of study and the methodological procedure used in the research. The scientific journals that make up the sample (Comunicación y Sociedad, from Mexico, Palabra Clave and Signo y Pensamiento, both from Colombia) have been selected on the basis of representativeness criteria such as the impact index in the Scopus bibliographic database and the geographical scope of the Latin American Caribbean. The results indicate that the discipline of public relations is marginal in the overall scientific production in the area of communication in the Latin American Caribbean. Most of the texts published by the journals with the highest impact index in the region focus on fields related to communication, but are far removed from the specific area of public relations. However, it is noticeable that in recent years greater attention has been paid to this discipline, with an increase in scientific production in the period between 2016 and 2020. The findings obtained also allow us to establish a profile of the scientific production on public relations disseminated in the decade from 2010 to 2020 by the leading journals in the Latin American Caribbean. A collective authorship, balanced in terms of the sex of the signatories, mainly from universities in Latin America and Spain, and the use of empirical approaches from a qualitative perspective, define the type of academic production analysed. Despite the limitations that this research presents when it comes to extrapolating the results to the whole of the scientific production on public relations in territories other than the Latin American Caribbean, it is outlined as an exploratory study and a first approach to the still incipient research on the discipline of public relations in Caribbean academic journals.
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Panadès-Estruch, Laura. "Public-Private Partnerships in transport: a critical assessment of the Caribbean." Public Administration and Policy 24, no. 1 (April 7, 2021): 61–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pap-02-2021-0004.
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PurposeThis article critically analyses the extent to which selected Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) transportation projects in the Caribbean subregion embrace good practices and how they benefit the public sector.Design/methodology/approachThe article begins with the general rationale of PPPs, leading to a discussion on the specific challenges of the Caribbean subregion and an assessment of certain critical projects. The sample cases include the L F Wade International Airport in Bermuda, the cruise berthing and cargo port redevelopment project in the Cayman Islands, and the Sanger International Airport in Jamaica. There are five aspects to the critical assessment: (a) an evaluation of the type of PPP arrangement used; (b) the legal/policy framework; (c) financial implications; (d) accountability; and (e) miscellaneous data. Desk-based research is conducted as supported by both international and local sources to convey a uniquely local perspective in this under-researched area of scholarship.FindingsPPP frameworks in the Caribbean are improving quickly but remain a work in progress. Jamaica leads the region. Bermuda trails behind. Problems of legal compliance with frameworks and limited market engagement persist, leading to risk management problems.Originality/valueThis article fills a literature gap on critical analysis of individual Caribbean PPP transportation projects. Previous reports, mostly by international organisations, cover regional or sectorial trends. Other sources take a descriptive but not critical approach.
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Córdova, Abby, and Mitchell A. Seligson. "Economic Shocks and Democratic Vulnerabilities in Latin America and the Caribbean." Latin American Politics and Society 52, no. 2 (2010): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-2456.2010.00080.x.
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AbstractHistorical evidence suggests that bad economic times often mean bad times for democracy, but prior research has given us little guidance on how this process may work. What economic conditions are most threatening, and how might they weaken consolidating democracies? This article uses the AmericasBarometer conducted by the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) to answer these questions by focusing on core attitudes for the consolidation of democracy. We use survey data at the level of the individual and economic data at the country level to help detect democratic vulnerabilities in Latin America and the Caribbean. The study finds that conditions of low levels of economic development, low economic growth, and high levels of income inequality increase those vulnerabilities substantially, but the effects are not uniform across individuals. Some groups, especially the young and the poor, are particularly vulnerable to some antidemocratic appeals.
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Delitala, A. M. S. "Perception of intense precipitation events by public opinion." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 5, no. 4 (July 22, 2005): 499–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-5-499-2005.
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Abstract. A survey of four years of local newspapers over the island of Sardinia was conducted. Articles were compared against meteorological observations in order to understand how efficiently intense precipitation events are perceived. The comparison showed that, on a wide and heterogeneous area, public opinion perceives correctly 44% of events and its perception is unbiased. If, however, the focus is placed upon urban areas, the ability to perceive grows to 66%, but an "overperception" of 33% arises. If focus is finally placed upon rural areas, skills worsen, several events are missed and a significant negative bias is detected.
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Leigh, Jeffrey T. "Public Opinion, Public Order, and Press Policy in the Neoabsolutist State: Bohemia, 1849–52." Austrian History Yearbook 35 (January 2004): 81–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0067237800020956.
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In the historiography of the Habsburg monarchy, the era of neoabsolutism, 1849–59, has generally been defined as either a period of reaction or one of missed opportunity when domestic policy was subordinated to the dynasty's great power interests. Historians commenting on this era have made important contributions, mostly in the area of foreign policy, state finance, economic developments, and constitutional theory, and have focused on what could or should have happened had the government chosen various reform agendas. None, however, have investigated the substantial developments then taking place in the alteration of state-society relations in the area of public opinion formation. Their interpretations have therefore missed and consequently masked the neoabsolutist state's pioneering efforts to create a wholly new relationship with the monarchy's disparate lands and peoples founded upon the rule of law under the Stadion Constitution, 4 March 1849, and then the Sylvester Patent, 31 December 1851.
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Cai, Mengxi. "Strategies and Effectiveness of Government Public Opinion Guidance in the Crisis Communication Perspective: The Case of Wuhan City Closure in a Sudden Public Incident." BCP Social Sciences & Humanities 19 (August 30, 2022): 236–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v19i.1610.
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With the development of the Internet era, the new media environment has also given rise to new forms of crises. Sudden public events always become the focus of public opinion on the Internet and spread rapidly across the network, spreading to a large area within a short period time, making it difficult for the government to guide public opinion and posing a serious threat to the image, survival and development of the government. Taking the sudden public event "Wuhan City Closure" as an example, this paper compares the public opinion guidance strategies and effects of the relevant media, considers positive public relations and image restoration theories as to the three-level coding standards for the construction of rooted theory, and uses qualitative research methods to investigate the government's public opinion guidance strategies and effects in the context of crisis communication.
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Cai, Mengxi. "Strategies and Effectiveness of Government Public Opinion Guidance in the Crisis Communication Perspective: The Case of Wuhan City Closure in a Sudden Public Incident." Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences 7 (January 13, 2023): 221–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/ehss.v7i.4091.
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With the development of the Internet era, the new media environment has also given rise to new forms of crises. Sudden public events always become the focus of public opinion on the Internet and spread rapidly across the network, spreading to a large area within a short period time, making it difficult for the government to guide public opinion and posing a serious threat to the image, survival and development of the government. Taking the sudden public event "Wuhan City Closure" as an example, this paper compares the public opinion guidance strategies and effects of the relevant media, considers positive public relations and image restoration theories as to the three-level coding standards for the construction of rooted theory, and uses qualitative research methods to investigate the government's public opinion guidance strategies and effects in the context of crisis communication.
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Layne-Yarde, Rhaheem N. A., and Simone L. Sandiford. "Larvicidal Potential of Caribbean Plants." BioMed Research International 2023 (August 26, 2023): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/5518863.
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Mosquitoes are vectors for numerous arboviruses such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika which continue to negatively impact the health of Caribbean populations. Within the region, synthetic insecticides are primarily used to control mosquito populations. In many countries however, these compounds are becoming less effective due to resistance, and they may also be harmful to the environment. Thus, there is a significant need for the development of alternative agents to combat the mosquito threat in the Caribbean. Worldwide, botanical-based products are being increasingly investigated for vector control because they are environmentally friendly and are often highly effective mosquitocidal agents. Although the botanical diversity within the Caribbean is remarkable, work on plant biopesticides in the region remains limited. The aim of this review, therefore, is to discuss the use of Caribbean botanical extracts as larvicidal agents. Additionally, we highlight the need for future work in this area which may subsequently lead to the implementation of transformative public health policies.
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Gabbidon, Shaun L., and Danielle Boisvert. "Public opinion on crime causation: An exploratory study of Philadelphia area residents." Journal of Criminal Justice 40, no. 1 (January 2012): 50–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2011.11.008.
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Yang, Yuhan. "The Impact of False Public Opinion on Users of Little Red Book--Taking Paris L'Oreal as an Example." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 37, no. 1 (January 15, 2024): 60–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/37/20240503.
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In the digital era, it is a common method for businesses to use the internet to attract attention, and stimulate purchasing desire. Merchants find people to praise their products, causing the public to lose their judgment and be unable to determine whether the products are useful. This article will explore the effect of media public opinion in Little Red Book, discussing the relationship between Paris L'Oreal users on Little Red Book and media public opinion, as well as how to use public opinion to influence Paris L'Oreal's user behavior and attitudes. This article uses case analysis with various factors, such as the official flagship store review area on online platforms. Analyzing the false public opinion of Little Red Book on user marketing, the results indicate that internet comments can influence customers' purchasing behavior and judgment, and reshape their consumption concepts.
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Rinconi, Liliana, Brenda Espiñeira, and Soledad Guzmán. "Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: Where We Are and Where We Should Go." Latin American Legal Studies 10, no. 1 (May 13, 2023): 246–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.15691/0719-9112vol11n1a7.
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In this paper we propose to provide a concept of Comprehensive Sexual Education and identify arguments based on International Human Rights Law that shoulddefine its scope and the extension of the obligations of the States in the region. In particular, we will identify five standards linked to sex education and its normative regulation; namely: a) legality, b) comprehensiveness, c) transversality, d) teacher training and e) role of families. In our opinion, these standards constitute indicators that should be considered by any public policy of Comprehensive Sexual Education. Based on this, we propose to critically analyze the regulations on sex education that exist in fifteen countries of the region. This, in order to identify aspects that could be relevant when designing a public policy of Comprehensive Sexual Education that is in accordance with international human rights standards in the matter.
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Pokotylo, David, and Neil Guppy. "Public Opinion and Archaeological Heritage: Views from Outside the Profession." American Antiquity 64, no. 3 (July 1999): 400–416. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2694141.
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A survey of public opinion on archaeological heritage in British Columbia, Canada, focused on five main areas: knowledge of archaeology, interest and participation in archaeology, the role of archaeology in modern society, awareness and support of heritage conservation initiatives, and Aboriginal stewardship of the archaeological record. Public opinion data collected from a random sample of 963 residents of the greater Vancouver metropolitan area indicate a high level of interest and support for archaeology and heritage conservation, but also a high level of misunderstanding about the archaeological record and current legislative measures to protect it. In contrast to recent changes in legislation and initiations within the discipline, public attitude towards Aboriginal stewardship of archaeological resources is generally negative. Education, age, and gender are significant factors affecting differences in opinion.
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Mialon, Mélissa, and Fabio da Silva Gomes. "Public health and the ultra-processed food and drink products industry: corporate political activity of major transnationals in Latin America and the Caribbean." Public Health Nutrition 22, no. 10 (March 12, 2019): 1898–908. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980019000417.
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AbstractObjectiveTo identify examples of the ‘corporate political activity’ (CPA) of the industry producing and selling ultra-processed food and drink products (UPP) in Latin America and the Caribbean.DesignSearches were conducted on the national websites and social media accounts of large industry actors. Coding was deductive and based on a framework for classifying the CPA of the food industry.SettingFifteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.ParticipantsTwelve members of the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) and major trade associations and chambers of commerce in the region.ResultsDuring the current pilot study, more than 200 examples of CPA were found in Latin America and the Caribbean. The UPP industry lobbied governments during the development of national health policies. UPP companies tried to build alliances with health professionals, but also with communities where they operated and with policy makers. In addition, the UPP industry fought against regulation in court and proposed weaker alternatives to public health policies, such as self-regulation.ConclusionsFood systems in low- and middle-income countries, including in Latin America and the Caribbean, are increasingly penetrated by the UPP industry. These countries are at risk of being influenced by the CPA strategies described in the present study. There is a need to further identify, monitor and evaluate the impact of these CPA strategies on public health policies and public opinion in the region, in order to develop mechanisms to effectively prevent such interference.
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Moy, Patricia, Kelley McCoy, Meg Spratt, and Michael R. McCluskey. "Media Effects on Public Opinion about a Newspaper Strike." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 80, no. 2 (June 2003): 391–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769900308000210.
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This study examines antecedents of public involvement in and support for a strike by newspaper journalists in a two-newspaper metropolitan area. Specifically, we focus on the role that perceptions of journalists and the news media, as well as mediated and direct experience, play in shaping involvement and support for the strike. Using data from a probability sample of 456 respondents, we find differential effects of the specific newspaper read by respondents as well as attention paid to newspaper and television news. Results indicate that direct experience, attention to newspaper news, and knowledge of local politics have an impact on strike involvement. Perceptions of news organizations as profit-driven and views of local media drive perceptions of the legitimacy of striking journalists' concerns.
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López García, Ana Isabel, and Barry Maydom. "Migrant Remittances and Violent Responses to Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean." Latin American Politics and Society 63, no. 2 (May 2021): 26–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/lap.2021.4.
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ABSTRACTHigh levels of crime are a key driver of emigration from Latin America and the Caribbean. But can emigration change public opinion about how best to respond to crime? Focusing on the political economy of remittances—the money migrants send to their families and communities—this study argues that emigration can increase support for violent responses to crime. Migrants’ families often spend remittances on investment goods, which makes them more vulnerable to crime and more supportive of violence to protect themselves. An analysis of AmericasBarometer data finds that remittance recipients are more likely both to fear crime and to be victims of crime than nonrecipients. They are also more approving of vigilantism, more tolerant of police bending the law to apprehend criminals, and more supportive of deploying the military in crime fighting. These findings contribute to our knowledge of the consequences of international migration for political development in migrant-sending countries.
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Kim, Soojin, Arunima Krishna, and Kenneth D. Plowman. "Winning in the court of public opinion." Corporate Communications: An International Journal 24, no. 1 (February 13, 2019): 96–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ccij-11-2017-0108.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore how public relations (PR) professionals develop co-narratives with legal counsel when formulating crisis communication strategies. Understanding how PR practitioners work with their legal counterparts may help lead to more advanced and effective PR practice in the area of crisis communication and management. The authors attempt to do so in this study through interviews conducted with PR practitioners in two Asian countries – South Korea and Singapore.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 11 semi-structured interviews with PR consultants, 6 in Korea and 5 in Singapore were conducted between May and August 2016. Data analyses revealed key points of interest for PR practice.FindingsFirst, PR consultants in both countries reported increased collaboration with legal counsel in times of crisis. Second, PR consultants report that legal professionals have begun to realize the significance of winning in the court of public opinion. However, the process by which PR–legal collaboration takes place to develop co-narratives followed extremely different patterns in the two countries.Research limitations/implicationsThis exploratory study is not exempt from limitations. The findings from this study may not be applicable to other countries. As data collection in both countries relied on snowball sampling techniques, the participants in the interviews may not be representative of PR consultants in South Korea and Singapore. E-mail interviews had limitations due to their lack of richness and details compared to other forms of interviews (i.e. face-to-face or Skype interviews). However, computer-mediated interviews including e-mail interviews can still create good level of understandings about the phenomenon in question.Originality/valueThis study was an attempt to understand PR–legal collaboration particularly in times of crisis and contribute to the development of Asia-centric models of PR practice. There has been little research that explores how legal and PR counsels actually collaborate to devise optional crisis communication strategies for their clients (or organizations) in the times of crisis. Given that crisis communicative strategies have been shown to affect publics’ perceptions of an organization’s credibility and trustworthiness, it is important to understand how PR work with legal practitioners to develop co-narratives for optimal crisis management, and understand how their different professional perspectives, practices, and approaches affect the collaboration.
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Yuldoshev, Azizjon. "ISSUES OF LEGAL REGULATION OF PUBLIC OPINION STUDY." Jurisprudence 3, no. 5 (October 27, 2023): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.51788/tsul.jurisprudence.3.5./orfk6897.
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"The article examines the legislation and practice of Uzbekistan, international standards, and foreign experience in studying public opinion. The purpose of the study is to improve the legal basis of this process and eliminate existing shortcomings. During the study of national legislation, it was established that the concept of “studying public opinion” needs to be improved, the procedure for its implementation has not been developed, the forms and means of its implementation are accordingly absent from scientific circulation and have not been applied according to their meaning, and other problems have been identified. Views, practices, and regulations about public opinion and its study were studied through analysis, functional, structural, comparative, formal, legal, and other methods. As a result, the content of public opinion and its study were revealed, and the definition in national legislation of the general rules of this process was justified, including the need to determine the information that should be published to assess the quality and impartiality of the results of the study and the need to prohibit their publication during a referendum and on the day before it starts. The author put forward a proposal to entrust the Association of Sociologists of Uzbekistan and the Central Election Commission with the development of methodological recommendations for the study of public opinion and control over the implementation of these recommendations and legal norms in this area with the election commissions."
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Wang, Guanghui, Yufei Wang, Kaidi Liu, and Jimei Li. "Multidimensional influencing factors of public opinion information dissemination in social media: Evidence from Weibo dataset." International Journal of Modern Physics B 33, no. 31 (December 20, 2019): 1950375. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217979219503752.
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The factors influencing the dissemination of public opinion on social media, the main carrier of public opinion, are diverse, complex and changeable. Existing studies of influential factors of public opinion dissemination focus on the information itself and information sources in the dissemination process, failing to consider the comprehensive influence of multidimensional factors, such as information content, sources and channels. This study takes the identification of multidimensional influential factors of social media information dissemination as the research object and comprehensively sorts out the influencing factors of public opinion. To improve the scientific basis and accuracy of the research, multidimensional factors, including information characteristics, dissemination network structure and user-level attributes, are selected to analyze the effect of influential factors in different dimensions on the dissemination of social media public opinion information using econometric models. Three main conclusions of this paper are as follows: (1) The traditional information characteristics (information content) and information source attributes (user-level factor) are not the only key factors affecting information dissemination, while the information channel (network structure) is worth more consideration. (2) Netizens tend to pay more attention to the psychological and emotional attributes of information when forwarding public opinions. The communication mode in which offline social elites enlighten the public no longer exists; whether a user is a network celebrity or lives in the central area no longer significantly affects public opinion dissemination. (3) The higher the total amount of information users release, the more the information would interfere with the public opinion. This is mainly because users with a higher level of activity may release more invalid information about advertising that has nothing to do with public opinion events.
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Papantoniou, Angeliki. "Advisory Opinion on the Environment and Human Rights." American Journal of International Law 112, no. 3 (July 2018): 460–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2018.54.
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On November 15, 2017, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Court) rendered a historic advisory opinion (Advisory Opinion) on the relationship between human rights and the environment. The opinion was a response to a request from Colombia regarding extraterritorial jurisdiction of state parties to the American Convention, in particular their obligations under the rights to life and personal integrity, arising from the construction and operation of large-scale infrastructure projects in the Greater Caribbean region. Colombia's concern was that, due to their dimensions and permanence, such projects could cause significant environmental harm, that goes beyond national borders, and, as a consequence, adversely affect the inhabitants of the whole region and the enjoyment of their rights under the Convention (para. 2). One of the most important aspects of the Advisory Opinion is the Court's finding that in relation to large-scale transboundary infrastructure projects, state parties to the Convention can exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction under certain circumstances and thus be responsible for the human rights of the people in the affected area. Another significant finding of the Court is that Article 26 of the American Convention, which provides for the progressive realization of economic, social, and cultural rights, includes an autonomous right to a healthy environment—a right fundamental for the existence of humankind. Finally, the Court directly linked the rights to life and personal integrity with general principles of international environmental under a due diligence obligation. The Court's extensive use of international environmental law instruments, case law, and reasoning could pave the way for greater interconnection and integration between human rights and international environment law obligations.
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Gencer, Bedri. "The Rise of Public Opinion in the Ottoman Empire (1839–1909)." New Perspectives on Turkey 30 (2004): 115–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0896634600003939.
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The political crisis of modernity has given rise to a number of studies in the area of political history that are disproportionately concerned with civil society. This consequently has spawned the development of broad theoretical frameworks concerning civil society and the public sphere. One of the lesser-treated subjects within this context has been public opinion. Developed primarily by post-Enlightenment liberal political theory, the notions of civil society and the public sphere had been presented as major alternatives to the domain of the power politics of the Machiavellian tradition. In order to place public opinion on a sound theoretical basis, there arose the need to promote historical empirical studies of it across national contexts over time. . One of the most significant tasks confronting comparative historical sociologists today is uncovering the origin of public opinion, which this paper undertakes to do within an Ottoman context.
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Soriano, Cristina. "Public Sphere without a Printing Press: Texts, Reading Networks, and Public Opinion in Venezuela during the Age of Revolutions." Itinerario 44, no. 2 (August 2020): 341–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115320000200.
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AbstractAt the end of the eighteenth century, members of the colonial elite of the Captaincy General of Venezuela addressed a letter to the king of Spain in which they sought permission to have a printing press in the city of Caracas. In the letter, they argued that the establishment of such a press was fundamental for the economic and commercial development of the Captaincy. Months later, they learned that the permission for a printing press had been denied without further explanations. Venezuela became one of the last capital cities in colonial Spanish America to possess this technology. The lack of a printing press during this politically dynamic period moved by the Atlantic revolutions did not necessarily affect public access to reading, sharing of information, and political debate in Venezuela. Venezuela's unique geographical location, and its open and frequent connections with the Caribbean region during the Age of Revolutions allowed for the effective entrance and transit of people and written materials that spread revolutionary ideas and impressions, creating a dynamic and contested political environment. Here I argue that during the late-colonial period, semiliterate forms of knowledge transmission, partially promoted by Spanish reformism, mobilised a socially diverse public that openly debated the monarchical regime, the system of slavery, and the hierarchical socio-racial order of colonial society. The colonial public sphere in Venezuela was shaped, then, within a context of emerging socio-racial tensions and became a space of contestation and struggle, animated by the overlapping of contradictory political discourses.This study contributes to recent debates about the character, nature, and relevance of the public sphere in the colonial world. It explores the circulation of manuscripts and ephemeral written materials, the different modes of production and reception of texts that developed in the colonial context, and an analysis of the character of the urban spaces that facilitated the performativity of texts. It thus offers a new framework for understanding the emergence of a public sphere in Venezuela, a colonial peripheral province with no printing press.
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Bousmaha, Kheira Zineb, Khaoula Hamadouche, Ismahane Gourara, and Lamia Belguith Hadrich. "DZ-OPINION: Algerian Dialect Opinion Analysis Model with Deep Learning Techniques." Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle 36, no. 6 (December 31, 2022): 897–903. http://dx.doi.org/10.18280/ria.360610.
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Today, many sources of unstructured information such as social networks and blogs are more or less freely available on the web, and their volume is constantly growing, which constitutes a free gold mine for collecting public opinion. Opinion plays a crucial role because it can influence the decision-making process. Sentiment or opinion analysis is a discipline that can be used to meet decision-making needs, provide feedback to new product launches and marketing campaigns, and protect a company’s reputation, especially in social networking environments with massive data by exploiting textual data generated by users. In contrast to the techniques used, we have used and adapted in this study deep learning techniques: CNN and LSTM to identify their potential in this area and apply it to a corpus of Arabic data and in particular in Algerian dialect collected from social networks (50572 Facebook comments). We obtained promising results with an 85% f-measure. This represents a good start for an opinion analysis on the Algerian Dialect.
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Luming, Zhao. "Research on Covid-19 Pandemic and Social Security." World Journal of Social Science Research 7, no. 2 (May 4, 2020): p4. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/wjssr.v7n2p4.
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Public health security is one of the important areas of social security. When the author drew up this thesis, the novel coronavirus pneumonia broke out in the Wuhan area, wreaking havoc on the entire land of China. Macroscopically speaking, the damage caused by the epidemic situation to social security is not only in public health, but also has a profound impact on public opinion, economic production and so on. In this paper, the author will analyze the damage on social security caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in three aspects: physical damage, social economic loss, and public opinion turbulence, furthermore, discussing its countermeasures.
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Zhang, Yan, Nengcheng Chen, Wenying Du, Shuang Yao, and Xiang Zheng. "A New Geo-Propagation Model of Event Evolution Chain Based on Public Opinion and Epidemic Coupling." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 24 (December 10, 2020): 9235. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249235.
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The online public opinion is the sum of public views, attitudes and emotions spread on major public health emergencies through the Internet, which maps out the scope of influence and the disaster situation of public health events in real space. Based on the multi-source data of COVID-19 in the context of a global pandemic, this paper analyzes the propagation rules of disasters in the coupling of the spatial dimension of geographic reality and the dimension of network public opinion, and constructs a new gravity model-complex network-based geographic propagation model of the evolution chain of typical public health events. The strength of the model is that it quantifies the extent of the impact of the epidemic area on the surrounding area and the spread of the epidemic, constructing an interaction between the geographical reality dimension and online public opinion dimension. The results show that: The heterogeneity in the direction of social media discussions before and after the “closure” of Wuhan is evident, with the center of gravity clearly shifting across the Yangtze River and the cyclical changing in public sentiment; the network model based on the evolutionary chain has a significant community structure in geographic space, divided into seven regions with a modularity of 0.793; there are multiple key infection trigger nodes in the network, with a spatially polycentric infection distribution.
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Intyaswati, Drina, and Supratman Supratman. "Pengaruh Usia dan Pendidikan Dalam Pembentukan Persepsi dan Opini di Media Change.org." Jurnal Penelitian Pers dan Komunikasi Pembangunan 23, no. 1 (June 17, 2019): 17–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.46426/jp2kp.v23i1.100.
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Along with the development of technology and mass media, Change.org appears in the form of websites that become to a medium for the forming of the public opinion, raising the opinions through campaigns that seeks the support of public opinion raised. This study to confirm how age and education level influencing the form of perceptions and public opinion through Change.org. This research using survey with explanitative approach, a research sampling are 200 people from Change.org users was taken with multistage cluster sampling technique with population at DKI Jakarta area. Data analysis using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results show that age and education do not affect perception and also public opinion forming. This shows that with internet-based media the acceptance of information becomes more similar and individual differences, especially age and education, are not to be an obstacle in adjusting existing public opinion.Keywords: age, education, change.org, perception, public opinion.
ABSTRAKSeiring dengan perkembangan teknologi dan media massa, Change.org muncul dalam bentuk situs yang menjadi media pembentukan opini publik, penggalangan opini dilakukan melalui kampanye yang berusaha meminta dukungan terhadap opini publik yang dimunculkan. Penelitian ini bertujuan mencari apakah usia dan Pendidikan berpengaruh terhadap pembentukan persepsi dan opini publik melalui media Change.org. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian survey yang bersifat eksplanatif, dengan sampel sejumlah 200 orang dari pengguna Change.org dengan pengambilan sample menggunakan teknik cluster sampling bertahap dari populasi di area DKI Jakarta. Analisis data menggunakan Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Hasilnya menyatakan bahwa usia dan pendidikan tidak berpengaruh terhadap pembentukan persepsi dan juga opini publik. Hal ini menunjukkan dengan adanya media berbasis internet penerimaan informasi menjadi lebih seragam dan perbedaan individu khususnya usia dan pendidikan tidak menjadi kendala dalam penyesuaian opini publik yang ada.Kata kunci: change.org, opini publik, pendidikan, persepsi, usia
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Badulescu, Daniel, Alina Badulescu, Ramona Simut, and Dorin Bac. "Considerations on the Effects of Cross-border Cooperation on Fostering Local Public Administration. Study-case: Hungarian – Romanian Border Area." Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government 15, no. 3 (June 28, 2017): 583–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.4335/15.3.582-604(2017).
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Local administration is a major actor, both stakeholder and beneficiary, in the cross-border cooperation actions. However, there are very few references in the literature investigating the opinion of public managers and employees involved in implementing cross-border cooperation programs regarding the effectiveness of CBC projects. In this paper we address this issue, by reviewing the relevant literature and mostly by presenting the results of own survey-based researches conducted on field. This article captures the opinion of managers and staff regarding the transformations generated by involvement in cross-border actions in Bihor – Hajdú-Bihar Euroregion.
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Cassell, Kaitlen J., John A. Booth, and Mitchell A. Seligson. "Support for Coups in the Americas: Mass Norms and Democratization." Latin American Politics and Society 60, no. 4 (September 4, 2018): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/lap.2018.39.
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AbstractCoups d’état, once a common end for democracies in the Americas, have declined sharply in recent years. This article investigates whether overall public support for coups is also in decline. Examining 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean from 2004 to 2014 helps to evaluate two alternative theses on democratization: Mainwaring and Pérez-Liñán’s 2013 normative regime preferences theory, which inquires (but does not test) whether public opinion can signal to elites a reluctance or willingness to support a coup; and classic modernization theory (Inglehart 1988; Inglehart and Welzel 2005). We find a substantively meaningful effect of democratic attitudes on coup support and a weak effect for national wealth, from which we infer that evolving elite values and preferences are paralleled at the mass level and that together, those two trends play a stronger role in the consolidation of democratic regimes than does modernization.
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Brown, Michelle G., John F. Lindo, Ivan E. Vickers, Kereann Nelson, Yakima Phillips, Cameil Wilson-Clarke, Samuel Gavi, Gene D. Morse, and Andrew H. Talal. "Seroprevalence and Genotype Diversity of Hepatitis C Virus in the Caribbean—A Review." Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 8, no. 7 (July 17, 2023): 370. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed8070370.
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Hepatitis C (HCV) continues to present a global public health challenge, with no vaccine available for prevention. Despite the availability of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) to cure HCV, it remains prevalent in many regions including the Caribbean. As efforts are made to eliminate HCV from the region, existing barriers, such as the high cost of DAAs and lack of an established database of HCV cases within the Caribbean, must be addressed. This review seeks to assess epidemiologic trends (seroprevalence and genotypic diversity) of HCV in the Caribbean and identify gaps in surveillance of the disease. The literature for the period 1 January 2005 to October 2022 was reviewed to gather country-specific data on HCV across the Caribbean. References were identified through indexed journals accessed through established databases using the following keywords: Caribbean, genotype distribution, and general epidemiologic characteristics. The usage pattern of HCV drugs was determined from information obtained from pharmacists across the Caribbean including Jamaica. The prevalence of HCV in the Caribbean was 1.5%; the region should therefore be considered an area of moderate HCV prevalence. The prevalence of HCV among intravenous drug users (21.9–58.8%), persons living with HIV/AIDS (0.8 to 58.5%), prisoners (32.8–64%), and men who have sex with men (MSM) (0.8–6.9%) was generally higher than in the general population (0.8–2.3%). Genotype 1 (83%) was most prevalent followed by genotypes 2 (7.2%) and 3 (2.1%), respectively. Less than 50% of countries in the Caribbean have reliable or well-curated surveillance data on HCV. Drugs currently being used for treatment of HCV infections across the Caribbean include Epclusa (sofosbuvir/velpatasvir) and Harvoni (ledipasvir/sofosbuvir). Some of these drugs are only available in the private sector and are sourced externally whenever needed. While trends point to a potentially higher prevalence of HCV, it will require well-designed random surveys to obtain better estimates of the infection seroprevalence, supported by strong public health laboratory systems. DAAs that are pan-genotypic should translate into treatments that are affordable, accessible, and available to improve cure rates and reduce the HCV burden in the population.
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Fladmoe, Audun. "Education in the News and in the Mind." Nordicom Review 33, no. 1 (March 1, 2013): 99–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nor-2013-0007.
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Abstract The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has gained popularity in educational debates, and scholars argue that the tests influence national educational governance. It has further been claimed that PISA has penetrated the news media and that public opinion on education has been affected, but few have offered empirical evidence for such arguments. The present study contributes to the area by investigating the relationship between (i) news consumption and public awareness of PISA, and between (ii) awareness of PISA and public opinion on education in Norway, Sweden and Finland. The findings suggest that consumption of newspapers and public service TV (PBS) news is positively associated with awareness of PISA; consumption of commercial TV news is negatively associated with awareness of PISA. Further, “PISA effects” on public opinion are dependent upon news consumption and political considerations. The most significant relationship is found in Norway, where mass political polarization is stronger among respondents who are aware of PISA, compared to those who are not.
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Rojas-Gulloso, A., L. Sánchez-Lerma, Marcela Montilla, F. Morales-Pulecio, E. Sarmiento-Rudolf, and Ricardo Tapia-Reales. "Infectious diseases in migrant pregnant women from an area of the Colombian Caribbean." Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease 55 (September 2023): 102629. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102629.
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SHINODA, Yoshihiko, Shouji TSUCHIDA, and Hiroshi KIMURA. "Periodical Public Opinion Survey on Nuclear Energy (Inhabitants Living in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area)." Transactions of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan 13, no. 3 (2014): 94–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3327/taesj.j13.018.
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He, Yue, Lijun Wen, and Tingting Zhu. "Area Definition and Public Opinion Research of Natural Disaster Based on Micro-blog Data." Procedia Computer Science 162 (2019): 614–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2019.12.030.
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Zaptcioglu Celikdemir, Deniz, Gonca Gunay, Alev Katrinli, and Sebnem Penbek Alpbaz. "Defining sustainable universities following public opinion formation process." International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 18, no. 3 (March 6, 2017): 294–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-06-2015-0105.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to define the sustainable university in Turkey, by considering perspectives of various stakeholders such as experts, intellectual, public, political parties and media using public opinion formation analysis. The paper aims to re-define the “sustainable university” with all dimensions including environmental, economic and social factors in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach In this study, the model of shaping the policy agenda and public opinion formation by certain groups, presented by Papadakis (1996), was used to determine the main characteristics of a sustainable university. Based on this model, the researchers collected data from intellectuals, experts, political parties, media and public simultaneously. Focus groups and archival search were used. Findings The results of the public opinion formation process presented that the definition of sustainable universities in Turkey includes the economic, ecological and social aspects and a holistic view of different groups. The findings of the study presented that the definition of sustainable universities in Turkey has many facets. Different groups in the public opinion formation process share almost similar views, though these points are usually mentioned under different headings. Thus, nearly each respondent in the public opinion formation process discusses the concept of being a “trade mark” as a university. Research limitations/implications The research may lack generalizability, as it takes place in Turkey, which is a non-Western country. Practical implications The research sheds a light for universities, which are the major cornerstones of higher education, especially in the area of sustainability and sustainable development. Also, universities have a great impact in regional development, which stresses once again the importance of sustainability in higher education. They should modify their education programs and curricula in accordance with sustainability. University–industry cooperation should be provided. They should manage to become a trademark. Social implications Universities being the major cornerstones of higher education play a vital role in regional development of countries; therefore, their sustainable development should be well handled to enable regional development. Originality/value The universities are the major actors which should pursue sustainability, as they affect society. The studies on sustainability and universities have been generally grouped under two main subjects in the literature. First group of studies highlights the support of universities for sustainability of corporations, whereas other studies stress the importance of becoming a sustainable university. There are not many studies on this subject which considers the public opinion formation process throughout the literature; therefore, this study contributes to the literature with this aspect. The study takes place in Izmir, Turkey, which is a non-Western country. Most of the studies on this subject take place in Western countries, so as the study is deployed in a non-Western country, it reflects a different point of view.
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Sandstig, Gabriella. "Public opinion on age stereotypes during the COVID-19 pandemic." Proceedings of the International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference 4 (2021): 29–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.30658/icrcc.2021.07.
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The news media can both mirror age stereotypes held by the public, as well as contribute to constructing or amplifying them. The first risk group identified in the pandemic was older adults. They are generally not so visible in the media, but during the pandemic, they were in focus. This study analyses to what extent the public agrees with age stereotypes during the COVID-19 pandemic and what characterizes the groups that hold them. Survey data from 04/14/20-06/28/20 on a national sample (6000) of the population of Sweden is used. The results, contrary to the expectation that stereotypes of older adults should dominate the public opinion, rather the stereotype of younger people not distancing themselves enough is the most common. However, the corresponding stereotype of older adults not doing the same is the second most common. In a non-crises situation, the most common stereotype of older adults is that they have poor cognitive abilities. However, this stereotype is rare during the pandemic. The characteristic of the group that agree with the stereotypes are that they are young rather than old. There are also differences by gender, education and residential area, but they vary depending on the specific age stereotype in question.
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Oliver, Willard M. "The Pied Piper of Crime in America: An Analysis of the Presidents’ and Public’s Agenda on Crime." Criminal Justice Policy Review 13, no. 2 (June 2002): 139–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0887403402132003.
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The theory of presidential influence over public opinion is used to predict the impact of presidential rhetoric on crime over the public’s concern for crime being “the most important problem facing the nation.” It is hypothesized that the more attention presidents give to the policy area of crime in the their State of the Union Addresses, the more concerned the public becomes with crime. Utilizing a time-series regression analysis of data collected from a content analysis of presidents’ State of the Union addresses on the Gallup Poll’s Most Important Problem series from 1946 to 1996, the analysis demonstrates that presidential mention of crime seems to elicit a public response, thus influencing public opinion of crime with a decay effect of approximately 1 year.
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Styron, Richard, Julio García-Pelaez, and Marco Pagani. "CCAF-DB: the Caribbean and Central American active fault database." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 20, no. 3 (March 25, 2020): 831–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-831-2020.
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Abstract. A database of ∼250 active fault traces in the Caribbean and Central American regions has been assembled to characterize the seismic hazard and tectonics of the area, as part of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation's Caribbean and Central American Risk Assessment (CCARA) project. The dataset is available in many vector GIS formats and contains fault trace locations as well as attributes describing fault geometry and kinematics, slip rates, data quality and uncertainty, and other metadata as available. The database is public and open source (available at: https://github.com/GEMScienceTools/central_am_carib_faults, last access: 23 March 2020), will be updated progressively as new data become available, and is open to community contribution. The active fault data show deformation in the region to be centered around the margins of the Caribbean plate. Northern Central America has sinistral and reverse faults north of the sinistral Motagua–Polochic fault zone, which accommodates sinistral Caribbean–North American relative motion. The Central Highlands in Central America extend east–west along a broad array of normal faults, bound by the Motagua–Polochic fault zone in the north and trench-parallel dextral faulting in the southwest between the Caribbean plate and the Central American forearc. Faulting in southern Central America is complicated, with trench-parallel reverse and sinistral faults. The northern Caribbean–North American plate boundary is sinistral off the shore of Central America, with transpressive stepovers through Jamaica, southern Cuba and Hispaniola. Farther east, deformation becomes more contractional closer to the Lesser Antilles subduction zone, with minor extension and sinistral shear throughout the upper plate, accommodating oblique convergence of the Caribbean and North American plates.
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Buttny, Richard, and Kathleen C. Haspel. "Journalists’ discursive construction of public opinion on President Obama and the economy." Language and Dialogue 3, no. 2 (September 3, 2013): 234–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.3.2.05but.
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This study investigates the journalistic construction of news from a focus group of eleven Philadelphia-area voters. The journalists not only represent the participants’ voices, they also present themselves as keen observers — they attempt to display expertise as journalists. The written stories use the participants’ voices more than was found in the journalists’ oral discussion about the focus group. In both the oral and written stories, the journalists ventriloquise participants’ voices within the genre, the news-feature story of how the dire political economy affects ordinary people. The journalists represent the participants’ opinions while simultaneously recontextualizing participants’ voices within their own storyline.
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Glotova, A. O. "Does Cinema and Movie Characters Influence the Formation of Public Opinion?" Contemporary problems of social work 6, no. 3 (September 28, 2020): 70–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.17922/2412-5466-2020-6-3-70-78.
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in modern society, the problem of the influence of cinema on the viewer and its value-semantic sphere is of great importance. It is worth noting that this area of influence on a person, despite the relevance due to the popularity of this type of product, is poorly studied from the point of view of sociology. During the work, the cultural identification of society through cinematographic art was analyzed, as well as the relationship between the viewer and the movie character. Theoretical approaches to studying the influence of cinema on a person of both foreign and domestic scientists are considered. The analysis allows concluding that the impressions that the viewer receives while watching the film can reach the level of real life impressions and is transferred to the experience of his daily life. Consequently, the products of cinematographic art not only affect the person, but also constitutional various aspects of his everyday reality.
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Zhang, Yang. "Analysis and Recognition Method of Internet Image Public Opinion Based on Partial Differential Equation." Advances in Mathematical Physics 2021 (September 14, 2021): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9759199.
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This article comprehensively and systematically expounds the development trends and basic theory of partial differential methods, analyzes the characteristics of sampling multiscale transformation in detail, and deeply studies the network image denoising and network image restoration methods that perform partial differential diffusion in the pixel domain and the transform domain. An adaptive diffusion method of partial differential equations is proposed. Among them, the key parameters can be adaptively changed according to the curvature and gradient of the local geometric information of the network image, and the diffusion direction and intensity of the diffusion can be controlled. First, using the principle of variation, we derive the Euler equation corresponding to the diffusion method of partial differential equations and analyze its diffusion ability using the local orthogonal coordinate system of the network image. Based on the theoretical analysis of public opinion, this article applies opinion mining technology to the online public opinion early warning system to achieve the purpose of grasping the opinions of netizens in time and guiding the trend of public opinion. Opinion mining is the use of natural language processing technology to automatically extract the emotional tendencies and evaluation objects contained in the subjective text. In the edge area of the network image, the diffusion along the edge direction should have a large diffusion coefficient, and the diffusion along the vertical edge direction should have a small diffusion coefficient; in the flat area of the network image, it diffuses to the surrounding with equal intensity, and the diffusion intensity value is relatively high. Secondly, based on the analysis of the adaptive partial differential equation diffusion method, using the half-point difference format, a numerical method for network image recognition is designed. Both theoretical analysis and experimental results show that the network image recognition model based on adaptive partial differential equation diffusion is more effective than the model based on partial differential equation recognition; at the same time, experiments show that the network image recognition model based on adaptive partial differential equation diffusion is more effective than the network image recognition model based on ordinary diffusion. The network image recognition model based on constant partial differential equation diffusion is more effective in improving the quality of network image recognition.
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Khokhlova, T. P., and V. G. Nazaretyan. "What Lessons in Managing Public Health System Were Given to Us by Pandemic: Regional Opinion." Vestnik of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, no. 6 (December 6, 2022): 68–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.21686/2413-2829-2022-6-68-77.
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The article highlights key problems in managing public health system in the Krasnodar area during COVID-19 pandemic. It provides findings of the research on public health system functioning in the context of administrative-legal, economic factors and resource potential of the area in 2017–2021. A number of indicators were compared with data of the South Federal district and the Russian Federation in general. The spread of new corona-virus infection in the Krasnodar area became a serious challenge to society, economy and regional business. It was proved that there are certain problems in the region stipulated by the overall stressful situation caused by corona-virus infection, quarantine and other restrictive measures and loss of economic stability of the real sector in economy. Apart from that the public health system of the region faced such problems as management fragmentation, disco-ordination of some components in managerial hierarchy, absence of complex decisions on protection and preservation of people’s health, medical and demographic faults, insufficient accessibility of medical aid, especially in rural areas. Recommendations formulated on the basis of research findings aim at overcoming of identified problems in order to attain the target landmarks in managing public health system in the region. Priority trends in managing public health in view of systematic-functioning approach that supposes introduction of a set of measures, such as goal – setting, planning, coordination and regulation of incidents, as well as implementation of the system of organizational – instructive, administrative, medical-sanitary, preventive and cultural-educational measures. Upgrading management of the public health system in the area could give an opportunity to improve the level and quality of medical service and consequently, the efficiency of industry. It can promote preservation and strengthening health of the population, rising labour activity, reaching serious social and economic parameters of people’s life in conditions of overcoming the pandemic after-effects.
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Tique, Vaneza, Salim Mattar, Jorge Miranda, Misael Oviedo, Angel Noda, Eney Montes, and Virginia Rodriguez. "Clinical and Epidemiological Status of Leptospirosis in a Tropical Caribbean Area of Colombia." BioMed Research International 2018 (May 29, 2018): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6473851.
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Objective. To describe and analyze the clinical and epidemiological status in 28 confirmed cases of human leptospirosis at the main public hospital of Cordoba. Methods. Between 2012 and 2013, we conducted an active surveillance at the main hospital of Cordoba to establish the etiologic diagnosis of the undifferentiated tropical febrile illness (UTFI) cases. UTFI is defined as a fever without an infection focus in the initial physical examination or in basic laboratory tests. Patients in acute phase were accompanied by prodromal symptoms, including myalgia, arthralgia, headache, asthenia, chills, icterus, dyspnea, abdominal pain, rash, and nausea. Samples were collected on admission and at discharge. Clinical and epidemiological data were collected for each patient. Microscopic agglutination test (MAT) was performed. Results. The 28 leptospirosis cases presented the following gender distribution: male (n=24) and female (n=4). The duration of hospitalization was 10.39 days. The main symptoms and clinical manifestations were fever, headache and nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain, all of which occurred in up to 60% of patients. Of the 28 cases studied, 4 were fatal. The most frequent infecting serogroups were Ballum and Canicola. Conclusion. Leptospirosis is a common cause of undifferentiated tropical febrile illness in Colombia; it is important to establish ongoing and accurate surveillance for acute febrile illness to facilitate the detection of cases of leptospirosis.