Since 2003, the former House speaker's Center for Health Transformation has taken an active role in circulating policy papers, testifying at congressional hearings and using other forums to build support for dozens of pieces of legislation and federal policy initiatives that would financially benefit clients who paid as much as $200,000 a year for his services, records show.
Soon after, an activist for the EFF circulated the policy statement on Twitter comparing it to George Orwell's description of the telescreens in his novel 1984 that listen to what people say in their homes.
For more than a decade, the rumors of an impending attack on Iran -- by the United States, by Israel, or by both -- have circulated in policy circles and on the Internet.
While individual consumer choice provides the enduring narrative circulated in policy circles and the media, attention to structural causes (and thus structural solutions) linked to the economic and cultural identity of society is given less prominence.
This information was not widely circulated among policy-makers or other stakeholders until 30 years later when there was a higher level of proof that PCBs could cause serious harm to human health and could accumulate in the Baltic food chain.
The $6 billion figure for Iraq has been circulating among policy makers at the World Bank, the United Nations and the Bush administration as they struggle to plan for an international donors' conference this month that they fear could be judged a failure for lack of pledges.
In the weeks before the presidential election, a plan for limited no-fly zones in Syria circulated in Washington policy circles and won advocates in the State Department, a person briefed on the matter said.
This past Friday, the central government circulated a draft policy of new securities regulations that would allow for Chinese Depositary Receipts to be issued on local stock exchanges.
Excerpts from Dataset One, organized here into the three sub-themes, provide some illustrations of how these messages were circulated in this policy forum: 'Participation in quality ECCE programmes is a strong predictor of academic achievement as well as improved social, economic and health outcomes'.
It was then circulated to academic, policy, and practice stakeholders for comment.
The models now circulating among policy-makers invariably are public-private partnerships, referred to as PPPs or P3s.
