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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"government communication"”.
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Blame avoidance in government communication
Governments’ policies and actions often precipitate public blame firestorms and mediated scandals targeted at individual or collective policy makers. In the face of losing credibility and resources, officeholders are tempted to apply strategies of blame avoidance which permeate administrative …
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Transparency in the Government Communication Process: The Perspective of Government Communicators
… understanding of the role of transparency in the communication processes of agencies of the United States Federal Government, as guided by principles of stakeholder management, models of public relations, and a model for government agency communication. These theories and models all suggest that …
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Enhancing Misinformation Response in Local Government Communication: A Systems Inquiry with the Alberta Municipal Communicators Association
… an online survey (n=101) and focus groups with communication professionals. Key findings revealed limited access to formal training, inconsistent leadership support, psychological strain among practitioners, and underutilization of artificial intelligence tools. Participants emphasized the value …
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Government Communication and Terrorist Organizations: Towards a Concept of “Crisis Communication” in reaction to 21st Century Islamic Terrorist Attacks for Western Governments
… question: how do and how should Western governments communicate the threat of terrorism, the nature of terrorist activities and their impact on their populations? The main goal behind answering this question is to find out how statements after the most significant Islamic terrorist …
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Cancer cluster communications: bridging the gap between science and public perception
… New Jersey and Fallon, Nevada to review state government communication and responses from residents. The purpose was to assess the residents' understanding and acceptance of the communication and to recommend guidelines for similar investigations based on lessons learned by officials and on …
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A Study of the Plain Writing Act of 2010: Federal Agency, Writer, and User Appropriations of U.S. Plain Language Policy
… Act of 2010 into law. It requires federal government agencies to use plain writing in all "covered" documents "the agency issues or substantially revises" (Sec. 4 (b)). The goal of the Plain Writing Act is to "enhance citizen access to Government information" (Introduction) and improve …
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Evaluating Clinger-Cohen Act Compliance in Federal Agency Chief Information Officer Positions
… becoming the primary vehicle for inter/intra-government communication and for delivering services to the public. Yet despite this importance, CIO-related aspects of the CCA have not received in-depth evaluation in policy science or public administration literature. The CCA specified many roles …
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Healthy Behavior: Essays in Health and Behavioral Economics
… by 2 percent. The third essay studies a tradeoff governments face when making recommendations in an evolving crisis. We investigate the effect of taking an early position on how much people believe later recommendations, using an online experiment with 1,900 US respondents in early April 2020. We …
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The Implementation of the South African Language Policy by Local Government. A Case Study.
In 1994, the South African democratic government declared 11 languages as official. Section (6) of the Constitution stipulates that all 11 official languages should enjoy equal status. Amongst other things, language policies, language institutions, and legislations were established to assist in …
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Governments in the spotlight? : on the use and impacts of freedom of information laws and proactive publication of government data
… manifestos to pass reforms increasing access to government information to root out corruption and improve public service delivery. Scholars have already offered several fascinating explanations of why governments adopt policies that constrain their choices. However, knowledge of their impacts is …
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Essays on the Behavioral Economics of Mental Health and Belief Formation
… beliefs in times of crises, and the role of governments' early recommendations about issues that remain uncertain. Do their early positions affect how much people believe the latest recommendations? We investigate this question using an incentivized online experiment with 1,900 US respondents …
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The Utilization of Social Media: A Case Study of the U.S. General Services Administration Experience
… media, it is becoming a mainstream method of communication for the American public (Lenhart et al. 2010, 18). If the government wants to effectively engage the public, it must leverage this opportunity. There is an apparent need for the government to keep up with the media shift by …
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e-Government interoperability
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Crisis communication in the wake of the storm: Derecho 2020
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Strategic communication management for governance and sustainability : a participatory communication perspective for inclusive citizenry engagement
Communication and governance are as ancient as human civilisation across a number of African countries – the concepts date back to the era of chieftaincies and the kingdom rule, which seemingly, dominated how communities were governed. In using formal and informal methods of communication, …
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Political Development in Zambia : A critical appraisal of Communication stategies used by The Movement for Multi Party Democracy (MMD) to disseminate Political Information
… a result of my attachment to and research of the communication strategies of the Movement for Multi-party democracy (MMD) from February to May 2004. This was in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Communication for Development at the University of Zambia. The report …