"Hopefully these numbers will help convince decision-makers that there is a problem," says wildlife biologist Fiona Maisels of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom, first author of the new paper.
This is presumably close to empirically observable discourses for two reasons: first, because interest groups have different interests - modeled here as two extremes on a one-dimensional scale; second, because interest groups always try to convince decision-makers of their favored policy image [28], which implies that they reiterate the ideas of governmental actors if they match their ideology.
High quality systematic reviews can provide robust and comparatively inexpensive evidence of what is known about intervention effectiveness, which may often be more likely to convince decision-makers than evidence from single studies [ 1, 2].
Aside from adequately reporting disease cases, control professionals and vulnerable communities may also lack the power to convince decision-makers of the public health importance of scaling up vector control [ 10].
These findings are consistent with other settings, including in Malawi, where government technocrats are able to use their connections within the policy network, their legitimacy as government workers and their technical expertise to convince decision-makers (Rabe 2004; Hutchinson et al. 2011).
When Vladimir Radchenko, the appointee, was able to show up for work, he was abducted — briefly, but long enough to convince decision makers in Moscow that the best candidate for the job was a Lezgin, after all.
And why he convinced decision makers at Pontiac that incessant body cladding looked cheap, not hip.
If the treaty is silent on threats to agriculture, it will be immensely difficult to convince decision makers to invest in adaptation efforts, like maintaining gene banks and establishing breeding programs focused on climate change.
