Sentence examples for focusing event from inspiring English sources

Overall results demonstrate a limited effect of national context on opinion change following a focusing event.

The non-effect of freedom of the press on opinion change contradicts the role of media after a focusing event as described in the literature.

The 2011 meltdown of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has become a focusing event for Field.

As the shock wave emerges from the focal region, after the shock focusing event, the shape of the shock is often fundamentally altered.

But Japan, he said, has an opportunity to catch up by using the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo as a focusing event.

The situation at the University of Missouri that has been catapulted into the national spotlight over the last week represents a focusing event for the country on issues of race and equity in higher education and the potential power of student athlete involvement in issues of social justice.

Guam, Saipan and Tinian are focusing events on honoring the returning foot soldiers and on educating younger islanders about the Japanese occupation and the American liberation.

Each phase also witnessed various revolutionary policy changes owning to political environment change and policy learning triggered by focusing events.

We have a chapter on how focusing events galvanize political attention by political scientists Thomas Birkland and Meg Warnement.

Therefore, using focusing events as a guiding framework for examining changes in disaster management policies in the Chinese context is useful.

This will enable us to understand long-term agenda and policy dynamics in a domain that is prone to focusing events.