Public relations is recognized as an organizational boundary-spanning function accountable for communication engagement with diverse stakeholders in ways that facilitate social relationships, co-creation, and communication. It this perspective underpins the claim license impact have utility public theory, decisions intended unintended impacts on communities. This also underscores need organizat...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS To elicit utility values for five health states corresponding to increasing severity of hepatic encephalopathy, from members of the general public in the UK. The health states studied were Conn grades 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. METHODS Interviewer-administered time trade-off (TTO) and standard gamble (SG) utilities were elicited for the five health states from a random sample of 20...

It is now well-established that privatisation brings with it re-regulation, not deregulation. However, this does not mean that we should expect that the policies once pursued under public ownership will be reintroduced by regulatory means. On the contrary, privatisation can be understood as a way of institutionalising changes in policy. This is particularly evident when privatisation is accompa...

I have a very simple proposition to put, that transport finance is in a mess and some radical thinking is required to solve the problem. I think the time is ripe to draw the lessons of history, and a remarkable number of pieces of the jigsaw are now falling into place. I shall propose a way of reforming the management of public sector assets, and specifically the road system. I think it is a su...

Rachel Golden is a graduate student in the Energy and Resources Group and the Goldman School of Public Policy at University of California, Berkeley. At UC Berkeley, she has served as a student researcher on multiple energy policy issues at the California Governor’s Office, California Public Utilities Commission, California Energy Commission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9, and Na...