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Context Matters: The Importance of Local Culture in Community Participation
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Prokopy, Linda Stalker; Aldrich, Daniel; Ayres, Janet; Amberg, Shannon M.; Molloy, Alicia; Saylor, Amber; Thompson, Aaron – Journal of Extension, 2012
Encouraging members of the public to get engaged in local decision-making is a key role of Extension educators. The study reported here explores whether local context influences which individuals choose to attend public meetings about the community and the environment. The study surveyed meeting attendees and non-meeting attendees in three…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Extension Agents, Decision Making, Local Government
The Factors that Influence Data Utilization in Decision-Making: The Case of HIV/AIDS Programs in Mexico
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Rodriguez, Daniela Cristina – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In Mexico, as in many other countries, HIV/AIDS strategies are developed at the federal level and implemented at the state level. Local programs are expected to use data, in particular surveillance data, to drive their decisions on programmatic activities and prioritize populations with which the program will engage. Since the early 1980s Mexico…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), State Programs, Prevention, Foreign Countries
The Uses of Cable Communications.
Cable Television Information Center, Washington, DC. – 1973
Only by having an appreciation of how cable systems can be used, the attendant costs and limitations, can local authorities rationally evaluate its impact on the community. This report is intended to provide an introduction to the range of uses and communications services now possible with cable systems. The first part of the report includes a…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Community Change, Community Leaders, Community Planning
Responses to a Decentralization Crisis, "Pulse of the Parent" #1; First in a Series of Reports of Parent Opinion Prepared by the Mass Media Committee.
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Lang, Gladys Engel; And Others – 1968
Discussed are some decision-making influences on the attitudes of New York City parents toward school decentralization. The Mass Media Committee of the Center for Urban Education maintains a representative panel of parents from whom information about communication experiences and responses to educational issues can be gathered. Telephone…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Involvement, Community Support, Decentralization
Perceived Political Factors Related to Superintendents' Administration of School Districts.
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Shelton, Brenda S.; And Others – Educational Research Quarterly, 1989
Political factors that school superintendents perceive as related to decision making were studied using a random sample of 172 superintendents from 11 southeastern states. The results show that the greatest political influences were local and state sources within the organizational structure of the school districts. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Role
Local Representatives in Connecticut: Sex Differences in Attitudes towards Women's Rights Policy.
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Mezey, Susan Gluck – 1977
The research investigated the relationship of a person's sex to his or her public policy preferences, with particular regard to women's issues. Women's issues are reflected in public policy which directly affects women's lives. Examples are day care facilities, sex bias of educational materials, and abortion facilities. The study was conducted to…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Comparative Analysis