Development banks' efforts have been more influential on policy directions in health.
Over the past few years, CAP's Action Fund has evolved into one of the more influential partisan-policy hybrid institutions inside the beltway.
In fact, Black (2001) argues that research evidence is more influential in central policy than local policy, where policy-making is marked by negotiation and uncertainty.
The ideas of American exceptionalism became much more dominant, the policies of the neoconservatives became much more influential, and American policy became more unilateral, less collaborative than it had been formerly.
Quiet conversations by pro-nationalist Spanish aristocrats in White's, a London gentlemen's club, were "infinitely more influential on government policy than mass rallies or demonstrations".
Even more influential on national policy has been a 22-year study by two University of Michigan psychologists, Leonard D. Eron and L. Rowell Huesmann, of boys exposed to so-called violent media.
After this political maneuver, Russia appeared to be more influential and its policies seemed to be more farsighted than the policies of the West.
Digital products and companies are not just changing the way we live our lives, but also playing larger and more influential roles in public policy and governance.
Andrew Jackson was more influential in setting national policy, but Tubman represented the many that battled against the great injustice, slavery, which he accepted.
Buse et al. have noted that doctors were often more influential in public health policy either as civil servants or as health ministers (35), while Shariff and Potgieter (12) also found that nurses were mostly invisible and that the health policy agenda in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania was dictated by other health professionals, notably doctors.
