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The world of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) has dramatically changed during the last two decades. The author critically analyses the engagement of INGOs within the contemporary international development landscape, enabling readers to further understand INGOs involvement in the politics of social change.

Economic policy. --- Economic development. --- Communication. --- International organization. --- Political science. --- Political communication. --- Development Policy. --- Development Studies. --- Media Studies. --- International Organization. --- Political Science. --- Political Communication.

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Simona Bevern addresses the questions what and why political parties communicate in the time between elections, focusing on the dynamic rise and fall of policy issues.Despite the central role of political parties and the alleged importance of communication, only few scholars have taken a closer look at the content and dynamics of parties’ communication in routine times of politics. In this study, interactions between parties’ communication, their party competitors, the legislative agenda, and public opinion are studied in Germany for the years 2004–2009, making use of a novel data set and quantitative methods.   Contents Dynamic patterns of inter-party competition Dynamics between parliamentary activities and overall party communication Dynamics between public opinion and overall party communication The Europeanization of party communication Methods of analysis: time series and multi-level regression models  Target Groups Lecturers and Students of Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Communication and Media Studies Political Parties, Organisations, Consultants in the area of Political Communications, Public and Media Relations  The Author After successful completion of the PhD program in political science at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences of Mannheim University, Simona Bevern is now working in research management.  .

Social Sciences. --- Political Communication. --- Communication Studies. --- Comparative Politics. --- Social sciences. --- Sciences sociales --- Communication in politics --- Political parties --- Political science. --- Political communication. --- Comparative politics. --- Communication. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Political communication --- Political science --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology

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This book offers a framework for the analysis of political communication in election campaigns based on digital trace data that documents political behavior, interests and opinions. The author investigates the data-generating processes leading users to interact with digital services in politically relevant contexts. These interactions produce digital traces, which in turn can be analyzed to draw inferences on political events or the phenomena that give rise to them. Various factors mediate the image of political reality emerging from digital trace data, such as the users of digital services’ political interests, attitudes, or attention to politics. In order to arrive at valid inferences about the political reality on the basis of digital trace data, these mediating factors have to be accounted for. The author presents this interpretative framework in a detailed analysis of Twitter messages referring to politics in the context of the 2009 federal elections in Germany. This book will appeal to scholars interested in the field of political communication, as well as practitioners active in the political arena.

Social Sciences. --- Political Communication. --- Communication Studies. --- Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences. --- Media Research. --- Social sciences. --- Social sciences --- Sciences sociales --- Data processing. --- Informatique --- Social Sciences --- Data processing --- Social sciences_xData processing. --- Communication in politics --- Technological innovations --- Social aspects. --- Political communication --- Political science. --- Political communication. --- Application software. --- Communication. --- Sociology. --- Mass media. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Political science --- Social theory --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology

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The explosive growth in data, computational power, and social media creates new opportunities for innovating policy-making. The open data and social media movements are making large quantities of new data available. Sophisticated techniques for data gathering, visualization, and analysis have expanded our ability to understand, display and disseminate complex temporal and spatial information to diverse audiences. At the same time, enhancements in computational power have expanded the repertoire of instruments and tools available for studying dynamic systems and their interdependencies. Demands for more openness, transparency and participation results in the need to proactively engage stakeholders in policy making.   To take advantage of these developments in the digital world, new approaches, concepts, instruments and methods are needed to handle the societal and computational complexity. This requires extensive interdisciplinary knowledge of public administration, policy analyses, information systems, complex systems and computer science. This book provides the foundation for a new interdisciplinary field, in which various traditional disciplines are blended.   Both policy makers and those in charge of policy implementations acknowledge that ICT is becoming more important and is changing the policy-making process, resulting in a next generation policy-making based on ICT support. Efforts to design public policies are confronted with considerable complexity, in which (a) a large number of potentially relevant factors need to be considered, (b) a vast amount of data needs to be processed, (c) many stakeholders are involved, (d) a large degree of uncertainty exist and (e) rapidly changing circumstances may shape the policy context.   This is the first comprehensive book, in which the various developments and disciplines are covered from the complete policy-making perspective. The essential characteristics of this research field are that it 1) is practice-driven 2) employs modelling techniques and 3) needs the knowledge coming from various disciplines. This book is practice-driven by taking the public policy problem as a starting point and defining what information is relevant for addressing the problem under study. Several examples in different domains are included in this book. Attention is given to modelling, simulation and visualization instruments and approaches, and comparisons between them. Finally, public administration, policy analyses, information systems, complex systems and computer science disciplines are blended in this book.  .

Economics/Management Science. --- Public Administration. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Political Communication. --- Economics. --- Economie politique --- Government - General --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Institutions & Public Administration - General --- Public administration --- Internet in public administration. --- Technology --- Communication in politics. --- Data processing. --- Management. --- Political communication --- Digital government --- E-government --- Electronic government --- Online government --- Industrial management. --- Political communication. --- Public administration. --- Political science --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Administrative law --- Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Public officers --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Management --- Business --- Industrial organization

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The way that movements communicate with the general public matters for their chances of lasting success. This book argues that the potential for movement-led political change is significantly rooted in mainstream democratic discourse and specifically in the political acceptance of new issues by news media, the general public, and elected officials. This is true to some extent for any group wishing to alter status quo distributions of rights and/or resources, but is especially important for grass-roots challengers who do not already have a place of legitimated influence in the polity.

Communication in politics --- Communication in social action --- Social movements --- Living wage movement --- Same-sex marriage --- Politics, Practical --- Political asepcts --- Political aspects --- Labor movement --- Minimum wage --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Social action --- Political communication --- Political science