Editorial: Public affairs cases

Public Affairs Quarterly

The purpose of this essay is to offer criteria for the identification of propaganda as a type of discourse, and for the analysis and evaluation of argumentation used in propaganda.1 Ten essential characteristics (as well as several other typical properties) of propaganda as an identifiable type of discourse are given. Some advice is given on how to analyze argumentation in propaganda, and to re...

Mental Health in Public Affairs

research symposia which were in themselves the reports of working Parties held over the preceding fortnight. Some of them have been already printed in various journals, but this book will provide a welcome opportunity for these to be re-read and for some to be studied for the first time. It will also bring back happy memories to participants. The subjects covered partnership in mental health an...

La Follette School of Public Affairs

We combined an expert elicitation and a bottom-up manufacturing cost model to compare the effects of R&D and demand subsidies. We modeled their effects on the future costs of a low-carbon energy technology that is not currently commercially available, purely organic photovoltaics (PV). We found that (1) successful R&D programs reduced costs more than did subsidies, (2) successful R&D enabled PV...

Program in Law and Public Affairs

This paper examines the effect of judicial ideology on the selection and outcome of telecommunications regulatory cases. Using a dataset on Federal Communications Commission orders and trials from 1990 to 1995, this paper shows that changes in the make-up of the bench of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affects not only who wins the cases, but also the cases selected for litigation. Specifical...

La Follette School of Public Affairs