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Articulating Environmental Policy Decision to the Public
Author(s) -
Bacot A. Hunter,
McCabe Amy Snyder,
Fitzgerald Michael R.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of contingencies and crisis management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.007
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5973
pISSN - 0966-0879
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5973.00082
Subject(s) - dissemination , public relations , element (criminal law) , public policy , process (computing) , public participation , environmental policy , political science , policy studies , mass media , public administration , business , environmental resource management , economics , law , computer science , operating system
Relations between policy makers (as well as other public officials) and the media are a crucial, but often neglected, element of public management. In this article, the authors seek to illuminate the relationship between public policy and the mass media by focusing on how policy matters are communicated, while emphasizing the important role played by public officials in this communication process. Recommendations thus ensue as to how public managers can more effectively disseminate information about environmental policies to a diverse, and often hostile, clientele which public policy makers and managers must be prepared to engage.