Defining Public Will

Raile, Eric D.; Raile, Amber N. W.; Salmon, Charles T.; Post, Lori A.

doi:10.1111/polp.12063

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“…). Raile and others (), as well as Raile, Raile, and Post (), have used this literature to provide a toolkit for generating public and political will, including tools for building firm commitments and mutual accountability. Since the evolution to cooperative behavior depends on the recent history of cooperation in the game, public will for cooperation and accountability for cooperation have great potential for fostering cooperative perspectives and actions leading to societally desired development outcomes.…”

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“…It also is likely easier to change a single action via mutual accountability than a strategy, which is really a mindset. The public and political will literature is highly relevant to this issue (Post, Raile, and Raile 2010;Raile et al 2014). Raile and others (2014), as well as Raile, Raile, and Post (2016), have used this literature to provide a toolkit for generating public and political will, including tools for building firm commitments and mutual accountability.…”

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The Behavioral‐Economics Basis of Mutual Accountability to Achieve Food Security

Oehmke

Young²,

Bahiigwa

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Politics & Policy

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Mutual accountability is a social construct designed to overcome informational, transactional, and enforcement barriers to alignment and coordination among development stakeholders. In Africa, it has been implemented at the country and regional levels and will be presented at the African Union Summit in January 2018. However, the literature contains little on either the conceptual underpinnings of mutual accountability or its implementation in the African agricultural development context. Therefore, we reviewed the literature on mutual accountability to articulate its behavioral economics foundations. We also tested predictions using an adapted Prisoner's Dilemma model. We found several implications of mutual accountability for African development strategy within and beyond agricultural policy, including the importance of changing initial conditions to include cooperative action, the potential impermanence of cooperative action, and the importance of a critical mass of cooperating agents for maximum synergy. Finally, evidence suggests that mutual accountability processes increase the likelihood of achieving cooperative outcomes. Related Articles Related Media ECOSOC. . “Mutual Accountability Explained.” http://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/newfunct/pdf14/ma_guidance_note.pdf This Place. . “The Prisoner's Dilemma.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Lo2fgxWHw

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The Behavioral‐Economics Basis of Mutual Accountability to Achieve Food Security

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Young²,

Bahiigwa

et al. 2018

Politics & Policy

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“…Political will (Post, Raile, & Raile, 2010) Public will (Raile et al, 2014) Political will and public will approach tasks Stakeholders Sufficient set of decision makers These tasks are listed roughly in order, though some repetition and combination are often necessary in an iterative process. Tasks 1 and 2 entail measurement of system characteristics, while Tasks 3 and 4 involve communication and accountability mechanisms.…”

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Analysis and action: The political will and public will approach

Raile

Post

2018

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Addressing complex social problems requires the implementation of public policies in support of positive social change efforts. Both political will and public will are crucial elements of such efforts. This article details an approach for analysis and action consistent with other action research approaches that facilitators can use in analyzing and subsequently helping to build political will and public will to address social problems. This article outlines a basic toolkit for action researchers working in the public policy arena. Four basic and iterative tasks, based on formal conceptual definitions of political will and public will, make up this approach for analysis and action. These tasks are stakeholder identification, assessment of stakeholder views of problems and solutions, alignment of problem and solution understandings, and the building of firm commitments and mutual accountability. Action researchers working to bring about positive social change through public policy can use this approach to structure their efforts.

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“…Building public will to address the climate crisis requires more than shifting climate change opinion or engaging more people in activism (Raile et al, 2014). By many measures, the climate movement today is stronger than ever: more people taking actions, more financial resources, and deeper concern.…”

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To Support a Stronger Climate Movement, Focus Research on Building Collective Power

Han

Barnett-Loro²

2018

Front. Commun.

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Building public will to address the climate crisis requires more than shifting climate change opinion or engaging more people in activism. Despite growing activism, the climate movement still needs to do more to translate public action into the power needed to effect meaningful change. This article identifies the kinds of research questions that need to be answered to bridge the gap not only between opinion and action, but also between action and political power. We draw on discussions from a conference that brought social scientists together with climate advocates in the United States. At this conference, movement leaders argued that to better support building a robust climate movement, research should move beyond traditional public opinion, communications, messaging, and activism studies toward a greater focus on the strategic leadership and collective contexts that translate opinion and action into political power. This paper thus offers a framework for synthesizing research on movement-building that demonstrates ways to focus research on power, and emphasizes the importance of organizing collective contexts in addition to mobilizing individuals to action.

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Defining Public Will

Cited by 21 publications

References 41 publications

The Behavioral‐Economics Basis of Mutual Accountability to Achieve Food Security

The Behavioral‐Economics Basis of Mutual Accountability to Achieve Food Security

Analysis and action: The political will and public will approach

To Support a Stronger Climate Movement, Focus Research on Building Collective Power

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