1- Throughout the text I believe I saw several public administration concepts from the different...

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1- Throughout the text I believe I saw several public administration concepts from the different phases of the policy-making process potentially at play, and my first question is: Do you see any of the following public administration concepts in application throughout the text and, if so, can you help me understand which concepts are most applicable to the content of the book and why? I've listed the concepts and phases I've identified as possible starting points.
Problem Definition Phase:
· Constructivism: "stands in contradistinction to empiricism (rational theory) because rather than 'mi
or' reality, journalists present a socially constructed conception of reality
· Policy Na
ative:
· Policy Frame:
· Causal Story:
· Target Population:
· Policy Instrument:
· Steering A
angement:
· Unintended Consequences
Agenda Setting Phase:
1. Agenda Universe:
2. Societal Agenda
3. Political Agenda
4. Decision Making Agenda
5. Policy Agenda
· Referential Framework
· Path Dependency
· Bounded Rationality
Policy Actors Phase:
· Advocacy Coalitions
· Policy Networks etc.
2- Second question stems from a direct quote from our textbook. Matthew Cahn, in Institutional and Non-institutional Actors in the Policy Process, notes that television news "to a great extent, defines which problems the public considers most serious. [...] Priming refers to the selective coverage of only certain events and the selective way in which those events are covered. Since there is no way to cover all events, or cover any event completely, selective decisions must be made. But, there are consequences. (Theodoulou, Cahn, pp. 203)"
Is there a specific example in the book of the policy consequences, both intended and unintended, of the use of such framing and selection techniques in a present-day context, where the success--or failure--of a policy program depended on the use of these 'priming' techniques on Western televised media? Can you think of any others?

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Slide 1
A Review of 
The Media and Political Process, 2nd Edition 
Introduction
A South African diplomat and politician, Eric Louw, has written a book named as the Media and Political process. 
The book got published in the year of 2005, a period of the government for the extension of the economic prosperity. 
The writer has laid emphasis on the relationship between the political parties or the governance with the media of the contemporary western democracies. 
The book has been focussed on the complex institutions and formed a successful extract of the numerous elements that devised the politics and media of the western countries. 
The writer can be noted as spin-doctoring who expressed his opinion in relevance to the media and the politics. 
He further laid out the individual impact over one-another and its outcome on the society. 
Through this book the deep insight of the writer can be witnessed over the politics in socio-economic processes and policies. 
The book furnished an extensive presentation of the operation, evolution and some terminologies of the political associations. 
It serves as a best resource for the policy makers and students seeking for political or Journalism studies. 
Book summary
The writer deployed here the portrayal of western politics by the mainstream media, especially the television media, relationship between media coverage and policy making, how politicians make use of the different media forms. 
The also provides the growth of spin- doctors and the relationship between the public and politics. 
It is an asset for those who wants to gather knowledge about the growth and development of the journalism in context of politics
In today’s world the western politics can be identified as a range of demagogic arts which leads towards the activity and opinion of the mass people.

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