Donna Lybecker
Idaho State University, USA
Title: Sustainable communities: Communicating with the public on science-based social issues and policies
Biography
Biography: Donna Lybecker
Abstract
Policy analysts in the United States, and many democracies, are taught they are not advocates for, but rather trustees of the public interest. However, policy analysts often lack political communication skills in how they present science-based information such as environment and health issues, finding their data ignored or manipulated by others. Using environmental issues in the United States, this paper suggests understanding both the values behind policy prescriptions and the values of constituents can help policy analysts educate the public without engaging in manipulating the public.
statistical evidences
Stakeholders’ Communication choices
References:
Lybecker D, McBeth M, Brewer A, De Sy C. (2017: Forthcoming) The Social Construction of a Border: The US-Canada Border. Journal of Borderlands Studies.
McBeth M, Lybecker, D, Stoutenborough, J, Running K, Davis S (2017: In Press) Content Matters: Stakeholder Assessment of River Stories or River Science. Public Policy and Administration. (DOI: 10.1177/0952076716671034)
Lybecker D, McBeth M, Stoutenborough J (2016) Do We Understand What the Public Hears? Stakeholders’ Preferred Communication Choices for Discussing River Issues with the Public. Review of Policy Research 33, 4: 376-392.
Lybecker D, McBeth M, Husmann M, Pelikan N. (2015) Do New Media Support New Policy Narratives? The Social Construction of the US-Mexico Border on YouTube. Policy and Internet 7, 4: 497-525.
Lybecker D, McBeth M, Kusko E. (2013) Trash or treasure: recycling narratives and reducing political polarization. Environmental Politics 22, 2: 312-332.