Local Media and Experts: Sources of Environmental Policy Initiation?
Local Media and Experts: Sources of Environmental Policy Initiation?
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当地媒体和专家：环境政策启动的来源？
DOI：
10.1111/j.1541-0072.2009.00348.x
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Deserai A. Crow
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作者：
Deserai A. Crow
对政策变化过程的研究往往涉及对政策企业家和大众传播媒介的作用进行直接或间接的分析。在科罗拉多州，从1998年开始，12个社区决定获得水道内娱乐用途的水权，如皮划艇和激流漂流。这些水权在科罗拉多州的一些社区引起了政治争议，涉及公共资金的使用、水的适当使用以及娱乐在当地经济中的作用。本文采用比较案例研究方法，分析了政策企业家和地方媒体对娱乐用水权的报道在推动当地社区政策变化方面所起的作用。这项研究最重要的发现是，在公民充当政策企业家的社区，争议更多，正面的媒体报道更少，而在这个过程的早期，媒体报道更多。这种情况与当地媒体报道有助于突出社区内政策问题的假设相矛盾。它支持这样一种观点，即专家在推动政策议程方面比公民具有更大的影响力。
Research on the process of policy change often involves a direct or indirect analysis of the roles of policy entrepreneurs and the mass media. In Colorado, beginning in 1998, twelve communities decided to obtain water rights for recreational in-channel purposes such as kayaking and whitewater rafting. These water rights stirred political controversy within some communities in Colorado related to spending public money, appropriate uses of water, and the role of recreation in local economies. Using a comparative case study research method, this research analyzes the role that policy entrepreneurs and local media coverage of recreational water rights played in initiating policy change in local communities. The most critical finding from this study is that in communities where citizens acted as policy entrepreneurs there was more controversy, less positive media coverage, and more media coverage early in the process. This case contradicts the assumption that local media coverage helps to highlight policy problems within communities. It supports the idea that experts wield higher levels of influence than citizens in promoting policy agendas.