摘要：THISarticle analyzes the role and attitude of Dutch government communica-tion professionals regarding external public communication about policyintentions, or "policy that has been considered or adopted by a minister of aGovernment but that has not yet been adopted by a higher body such as the Go-vernment or the Parliament". Our research is conducted in the West Europeancontext with parliamentary governments in which the Executives are compo-sed of teams of Prime Ministers and ministers that emanate from Parliament.There are some relatively recent developments in citizenry with politicsand the media clearly indicating that a preliminary information provision ishighly relevant and a delicate issue that merits close consideration. Let us notesome of the most important and relevant developments.
