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Government On The Silver Screen: Contemporary American Cinema’S Depiction Of Attractive, Capable Bureaucrats, Incompetent Cops, And Brave Soldiers, Michelle Pautz, Megan Warnement
Government On The Silver Screen: Contemporary American Cinema’S Depiction Of Attractive, Capable Bureaucrats, Incompetent Cops, And Brave Soldiers, Michelle Pautz, Megan Warnement
Michelle Pautz
Movies continue to be the most accessible art form to Americans and that reach allows films to have a tremendous effect on moviegoers. With more than a billion movie tickets sold annually in the United States, the ability of movies to influence the perceptions of moviegoers is pronounced. Frequently, the government is part of those depictions. Although film is routinely studied in a host of disciplines, a focus on the portrayal of government generally and government officials more specifically, remains elusive. Instead of using a case-study approach, we examine recent, popular films to investigate how government is portrayed generally and …
Remembering The Regulators Themselves: Melding Administrative Procedures And Regulatory Theory, Michelle Pautz
Remembering The Regulators Themselves: Melding Administrative Procedures And Regulatory Theory, Michelle Pautz
Michelle Pautz
Review of Steven P. Croley, Regulation and Public Interests: The Possibility of Good Regulatory Government (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).
'Argo' And 'Zero Dark Thirty': Film, Government, And Audiences, Michelle Pautz
'Argo' And 'Zero Dark Thirty': Film, Government, And Audiences, Michelle Pautz
Michelle Pautz
With the prevalence and accessibility of film today, we must wonder how film affects its audience. In particular, how does film influence an audience’s perceptions of the government? Regardless of the content, research demonstrates that film has the power to shape perceptions of its moviegoers on a range of subjects. In this study, two recent films,Argo and Zero Dark Thirty, were chosen as case studies to explore how Hollywood portrays the intelligence community in film and shapes opinions about the government more broadly. This research found that about 25% of viewers of the two films changed their opinion about the …
Front-Line Regulators And Their Approach To Environmental Regulation In Southwest Ohio, Michelle Pautz
Front-Line Regulators And Their Approach To Environmental Regulation In Southwest Ohio, Michelle Pautz
Michelle Pautz
Regulatory approaches and strategies are frequently the subject of study in various literatures, but that examination focuses on practices rather than looking more deeply at the nature of regulatory interactions. Also missing is a more thorough look at what it is front-line regulators—in this case, environmental inspectors and site coordinators—desire in their interactions and how they perceive their regulatory counterparts. Interviews with regulators in Southwest Ohio reveal that 82 percent of them think the regulated community intends to comply with regulations. Additionally, 71 percent of regulators say that their interactions are positive with the regulated community with three-quarters indicating that …
U.S. Environmental Policy In Action: Practice And Implementation, Sara Rinfret, Michelle Pautz
U.S. Environmental Policy In Action: Practice And Implementation, Sara Rinfret, Michelle Pautz
Michelle Pautz
This volume provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy, which is of particular importance in an era of congressional gridlock. With a focus grounded in the front lines of environmental policy, readers are afforded examples of how environmental policy works through case studies and voices sections, thereby enriching the text's practical approach to understanding contemporary American environmental policy.
Civil Servants On The Silver Screen: The Depiction Of Government In American And Australian Cinema, Michelle Pautz
Civil Servants On The Silver Screen: The Depiction Of Government In American And Australian Cinema, Michelle Pautz
Michelle Pautz
With the prevalence of government, it is unsurprising to find it frequently represented on the silver screen. But, with the ability of film to influence perceptions and attitudes, questions arise, including: how is government portrayed on the silver screen? Are government bureaucrats berated or praised? This research examines the representation of government—and civil servants in particular—in a comparative setting. The top 100 box office grossing films of all time in the United States and Australia were selected to address the question: how do these films in the United States and Australia depict government? This study analyzes these 200 films and …