This paper proposes a new policy development framework, entitled ‘Social Media and Organisation Policy’ (SOMEOP) which considers the essential aspects that allow organisations to achieve their intended outcomes when using social media tools, without constricting the flexibility they bring. Through an interpretive content analysis within a media and consulting company, as well as extensive liter...

The media play an important role in connecting citizens to government officials. Much of what citizens learn about environmental policy making and implementation is learned through media coverage of government actions. We have evidence to suggest that the media can influence citizens' perceptions of government, but we know less about the media's dependence on govemment. This paper is meant to e...

Previous research has neglected media audiences’ and citizens’ opinions on how the should be organized, they function in society what individual, corporate state responsibilities regard to these questions. In an attempt understand relationship between broader political attitudes their media-related politics responsibilities, this study uses a survey (n = 2003) of adult Swedish population invest...

Media agenda setting refers to the deliberate coverage of topics or events with the goal of influencing public opinion and public policy. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of 4 prominent newspapers to examine how the media gathered and distributed news to shape public policy priorities during Hurricane Katrina. The media framed most Hurricane Katrina stories by emphasizing government...

We develop an equilibrium model to analyze the role of the media in electoral competition. Policy payoffs in the model are state dependent. We show that voters cannot infer the state directly from off-equilibrium party policies. As a result, party policies do not converge to the median voter’s ideal policy when the media report only party strategies. News analyses that convey information about ...

BACKGROUND In September 2003, the Canadian government committed to developing legislation that would facilitate greater access to affordable medicines for developing countries. Over the course of eight months, the legislation, now known as Canada's Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), went through a controversial policy development process and the newspaper media was one of the major venues in wh...

The paper studies the impact of biased media news on policy outcomes in the classical Hotelling-Downs setup of winner-take-all elections with state-dependent payoffs. When voters and the two parties do not observe this state but an ideologically biased media does, it can indulge in two forms of cheap talk messaging: policy advice (that comes before parties commit to platforms) and party endorse...

Elections sometimes give policy-makers incentives to pander, i.e., to implement a policy that voters think is in their best interest, even though the policy-maker knows that a different policy is actually better for the voter. Pandering incentives are typically attenuated when voters learn, prior to the election, whether the policy chosen by the incumbent truly was in their best interest. This ...