Lobbying: fantasy, reality or both? A health care public policy case study

Terry, Valerie

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“…The conceptualization of policy activity we have adopted is directly influenced by the literature on lobbying, which argues that the single most important way to influence policy making is through strategic communication of information (de figueiredo 2002;kollman 1998;milbrath 1960;Smith 1999). We conceive political communications as discourses where actors use rhetoric to confer as much legitimacy and plausibility as they can on the link between a given situation (problem), a given intervention (policy option) and given effects (Elder and Cobb 1983;Hardy et al 2000;majone 1989;Stone 2002;Terry 2001). The link between interventions and effects can either be positive ("we should do x because it would produce positive effect Y") or negative ("we shouldn't do x because it would produce undesirable effect Y").…”

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confidence: 99%

The Visible Politics of the Privatization Debate in Quebec

Contandriopoulos

Abelson²,

Lamarche³

et al. 2012

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This paper analyzes the debates surrounding the privatization of health services financing in quebec. The objective is to clarify policy-making processes with regard to this important issue and, more generally, to provide a realistic understanding of health-related policy processes in Canada. The analysis is based on a large and continuous sample of mass media and National Assembly debates on the question during the four-and-a-half years following the Chaoulli ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada. These data are used to test four hypotheses about relationships among the types of political actors involved, their policy preferences, the rhetoric they use and the anticipated policy effects they assert. The results are applied to a discussion of questions about the factors that influence the effectiveness of political communication. RésuméCet article fait l' analyse du débat autour de la privatisation du financement des services de santé au québec. L' objectif est de clarifier les processus d' élaboration de politiques quant à cet enjeu d'importance et, de façon plus générale, de mieux comprendre le processus d' élaboration des politiques de santé au Canada. L' analyse se fonde sur un vaste échantillon continu provenant des médias de masse et des débats sur le sujet à l' Assemblée nationale au cours des quatre années et demie qui ont suivi la décision de la Cour suprême du Canada sur l' affaire Chaoulli. Ces données ont servi à tester quatre hypothèses au sujet de la relation entres les types d' acteurs politiques impliqués, leurs préférences politiques, leur discours et les effets qu'ils attribuent aux différentes options politiques. Les résultats sont utilisés pour discuter des facteurs qui influencent l' efficacité des communications politiques. (Béland et al. 2008; Castonguay 2008; Contandriopoulos and Bilodeau 2008). In June 2005, in a very close four-against-three majority, the Supreme Court of Canada (2005) ruled in Chaoulli v. Quebec that the prohibition of substitutive private insurance for medically necessary services available under medicare in quebec violated quebec' s charter of rights (flood et al. 2005; maioni and manfredi 2005). However, it soon became clear that the effects of that ruling were not so much legal as political. The ruling opened a policy window (kingdon 1984) prompted by a strong surge in the overall salience of the issue, resulting in related legislative activities (Castonguay 2008; Government of quebec 2006a Government of quebec ,b, 2008. In this paper, we use the postChaoulli healthcare financing policy debate as a revelatory case study to understand healthrelated policy processes in quebec and Canada.Our analysis is based on a large and continuous sample of the publicly observable components of policy-making processes during a four-and-a-half-year period. The data were used to test four hypotheses regarding the interdependence of groups' preferences, policy options supported, rhetoric used and anticipated effects. We then compared our results against the evolution of ...

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The Visible Politics of the Privatization Debate in Quebec

Contandriopoulos

Abelson²,

Lamarche³

et al. 2012

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“…Terry (2001a) points out that larger collectivities look to lobbyists as "communication professionals to represent their public policy interests and concerns within a political culture that individual voices may be less empowered to navigate on their own" (p. 266). The American League of Lobbyists (ALL), the national professional association dedicated exclusively to lobbying, defines lobbying as "advocacy of a point of view, either by groups or individuals" (ALL, n.d.).…”

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“…Even though lobbying is often considered a specialization of public relations (Toth, 1986;Heath & Cousino, 1990;Guth & Marsh, 2000;Cutlip, Center, & Broom, 2000), it has received very little attention in the public relations literature (Terry, 2001a(Terry, , 2001bWise, 2007). Yet as an accepted and legal process, political scientists have long recognized the legitimate uses of lobbying in a democracy.…”

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The Ethics of Lobbying: Testing an Ethical Framework for Advocacy in Public Relations

Berg

2012

Journal of Mass Media Ethics

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“…We begin by presenting briefly one of the first analytical views of lobbying proposed by Milbrath in 1960(Milbrath 1960, 1963Koeppl 2001;Terry 2001). This model is of interest to our discussion insofar as it considers lobbying as essentially a process of communicating information (de Figueiredo 2002).…”

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Evaluating Interventions Aimed at Promoting Information Utilization in Organizations and Systems

Contandriopoulos¹,

Brousselle²,

Kêdoté³

2008

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This paper presents a theoretical and practical framework for evaluating interventions aimed at promoting information utilization in organizational decision-making. The framework integrates three distinct yet complementary theoretical perspectives on information utilization in politico-administrative systems: (1) the literature on evaluation utilization, (2) current thinking on knowledge transfer (KT) in the health policy field and (3) approaches derived from the analysis of lobbying in political science. Our analysis calls into question the relevance of effect analysis in evaluating organizational or policy-level KT initiatives, but also suggests dimensions that should be explored when evaluating KT initiatives. We conclude that there are probably trade-offs to be made between the effectiveness of KT and the scientific robustness and validity of the information transmitted. RésuméCet article présente un cadre théorique et pratique pour l' évaluation des interventions qui visent à promouvoir l'utilisation de l'information dans la prise de décision organisationnelle. Le cadre intègre trois perspectives théoriques distinctes, mais complémen-taires, sur l'utilisation de l'information dans les systèmes politico-administratifs : (1) la littérature portant sur l'utilisation de l'information, (2) la réflexion actuelle sur le transfert de connaissances (TC) dans le domaine des politiques de santé et (3) les approches découlant de l' analyse du lobbying en science politique. L' analyse remet en question la pertinence de l' analyse des effets dans l' évaluation des initiatives de TC au niveau organisationnel ou politique, mais elle propose également des aspects dont devrait tenir compte une évaluation des initiatives de TC. Pour conclure, nous ajoutons qu'il est sans doute nécessaire de trouver un compromis entre, d'une part, l' efficacité du TC et, d' autre part, la validité et la rigueur scientifique des informations transmises.

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Lobbying: fantasy, reality or both? A health care public policy case study

Cited by 20 publications

References 12 publications

The Visible Politics of the Privatization Debate in Quebec

The Visible Politics of the Privatization Debate in Quebec

The Ethics of Lobbying: Testing an Ethical Framework for Advocacy in Public Relations

Evaluating Interventions Aimed at Promoting Information Utilization in Organizations and Systems

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