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Political Consequences of the Endangered Local Watchdog: Newspaper Decline and Mayoral Elections in the United States

Urban Affairs Review, 2020
Newspapers have faced extreme challenges in recent years due to declining circulation and advertising revenue. This has resulted in newspaper closures, staff cuts, and dramatic changes to the ways many newspapers cover local government, among other ...
Meghan E. Rubado, Jay Jennings
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Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers

Political Studies, 2022
This article examines whether political professionalization causes attitudinal incongruence within political parties. In this first of a kind study, the internal opinion structure of five Belgian political parties based in Flanders is analysed by ...
Pieter Moens
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Legislative Staff and Representation in Congress

American Political Science Review, 2018
Legislative staff link Members of Congress and their constituents, theoretically facilitating democratic representation. Yet, little research has examined whether Congressional staff actually recognize the preferences of their Members’ constituents ...
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, M. Mildenberger, L. Stokes   +2 more
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Revolving Door Lobbyists and the Value of Congressional Staff Connections

Journal of Politics, 2018
Building on previous work on lobbying and relationships in Congress, I propose a theory of staff-to-staff connections as a human capital asset for Capitol Hill staff and revolving door lobbyists.
Joshua McCrain
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The Politics of Staff Counselling

Employee Counselling Today, 1994
Commonly, staff support is conceived of in terms of counselling. Centres on counselling as a form of staff support, and questions the idea that it can be realistically offered within work settings. The idea that a short course plus some unsupervised practice might adequately prepare a person to counsel others is rejected.
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Paper Cuts: How Reporting Resources Affect Political News Coverage

American Journal of Political Science, 2019
Media outlets provide crucial inputs into the democratic process, yet they face increasingly severe economic challenges. I study how a newly salient manifestation of this pressure, reduced reporting capacity, influences political coverage.
E. Peterson
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Data Journalism Projects Based on User-Generated Content. How La Nacion Data Transforms Active Audience into Staff

Digital Journalism, 2019
This article aims to contribute to the debate on audience participation in the media from three points of view: (1) demonstrating how data journalism enables an effective participation by the public in news production, (2) establishing a typology of the ...
B. Palomo, Laura Teruel, E. Blanco-Castilla   +2 more
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Political Savvy in Staff Development: Building an Indispensable Department

The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 1994
ABSTRACT Political savvy is not something with which one is born; instead it is a process that is learned, sometimes painfully, always demandingly. The purpose of this article is to identify strategies that will make a staff development department essential to organizational functioning and that will enhance both productivity and political ...
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The Growth of Political Advisory Staff

2018
This chapter will examine the causes and consequences of recruiting an increasing number of political staff from outside the permanent civil service. The evidence is ‘politicisation’ has grown in recent decades as a consequence of the influx of appointees.
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The Micro politics of Accountability: The Case of Staff Appraisal

Educational Policy, 1998
Nowhere are the micropolitics within schools more evident than in staff appraisal. Currently, the New Zealand government is attempting to shift the evaluation of teachers from a predominantly professional form of accountability to a more democratic form in which teachers are held accountable for their performance to both central government and local ...
Helen S. Timperley, Viviane M. J. Robinson   +1 more
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