Agenda Setting Policies And Political Systems

Author : Peter John,Shaun Bevan,Will Jennings,Bryan D. Jones,Michelle C. Whyman,Sylvain Brouard,Emiliano Grossman,Isabelle Guinaudeau,Arco Timmermans,Gerard Breeman,Frédéric Varone,Isabelle Engeli,Pascal Sciarini,Roy Gava,Christian Breunig,Brandon Zicha,Anne Hardy,Jeroen Joly,Tobias Van Assche,Enrico Borghetto,Marcello Carammia,Francesco Zucchini,Laura Chaqués-Bonafont,Anna M. Palau,Luz M. Muñoz Marquez,Martial Foucault,Éric Montpetit
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226128443

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Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems by Peter John,Shaun Bevan,Will Jennings,Bryan D. Jones,Michelle C. Whyman,Sylvain Brouard,Emiliano Grossman,Isabelle Guinaudeau,Arco Timmermans,Gerard Breeman,Frédéric Varone,Isabelle Engeli,Pascal Sciarini,Roy Gava,Christian Breunig,Brandon Zicha,Anne Hardy,Jeroen Joly,Tobias Van Assche,Enrico Borghetto,Marcello Carammia,Francesco Zucchini,Laura Chaqués-Bonafont,Anna M. Palau,Luz M. Muñoz Marquez,Martial Foucault,Éric Montpetit Pdf

What will gain the system’s attention? “Explores the dynamics of a broad range of policy issues in different countries . . . an important scholarly contribution.” —Political Studies Review Before making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political science holds that the amount of attention devoted by the various actors within a political system to issues like immigration, health care, and the economy can inform our understanding of its basic patterns and processes. While there has been considerable attention to how political systems process issues in the United States, Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Stefaan Walgrave demonstrate the broader applicability of this approach by extending it to other countries and their political systems. This book brings together essays on eleven countries and two broad themes. Contributors to the first section analyze the extent to which party and electoral changes and shifts in the partisan composition of government have led—or not led—to policy changes in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, and France. The second section turns the focus on changing institutional structures in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain, and Canada, including the German reunification and the collapse of the Italian party system. Together, the essays make clear the efficacy of the agenda-setting approach for understanding not only how policies evolve, but also how political systems function.

Author : Peter B. Mortensen,Matt W. Loftis,Henrik B. Seeberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030909321

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Explaining Local Policy Agendas by Peter B. Mortensen,Matt W. Loftis,Henrik B. Seeberg Pdf

Building on hundreds of thousands of systematically collected and content-coded local policy agenda observations, this book examines – theoretically and empirically - the policy agenda effects of four central aspects of any political system: the institutions that structure politics; the problems confronting the political system; the occurrence of regular and free elections; and the actors navigating the political system. Developing an explanatory model based on these four factors not only improves our understanding of the determinants of the local policy agenda but also contributes to a further integration of local government research, policy agendas research, and the broader discipline of political science. The book may be of particular interest to scholars and students of comparative politics, agenda setting, public policy, and local government.

Author : Nikolaos Zahariadis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784715922

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Handbook of Public Policy Agenda Setting by Nikolaos Zahariadis Pdf

Setting the agenda on agenda setting, this Handbook explores how and why private matters become public issues and occasionally government priorities. It provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the perspectives, individuals, and institutions involved in setting the government’s agenda at subnational, national, and international levels. Drawing on contributions from leading academics across the world, this Handbook is split into five distinct parts. Part one sets public policy agenda setting in its historical context, devoting chapters to more in-depth studies of the main individual scholars and their works. Part two offers an extensive examination of the theoretical development, whilst part three provides a comprehensive look at the various institutional dimensions. Part four reviews the literature on sub-national, national and international governance levels. Finally, part five offers innovative coverage on agenda setting during crises.

Author : Frank R. Baumgartner,Christoffer Green-Pedersen,Bryan D. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317996965

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Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas by Frank R. Baumgartner,Christoffer Green-Pedersen,Bryan D. Jones Pdf

Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this book draws on the insights of the existing literature on agenda setting and policy changes to explore the dynamics of attention allocation and its consequences. Attention is a crucial variable in understanding modern politics. Shifts in attention have dramatic consequences for both politics and policy decisions. This volume includes case studies of nine different political systems including the US, Canada, several European systems, and the EU itself. It asks the following questions: Which are the dynamics of agenda-setting in the EU? Which role do political parties play in attention allocation? What are the cross national differences in attention to health care? What role does science and expertise play in attention-allocation? What are the effects of political institutions? Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas will be of interest to students and scholars of policy analysis and public policy.

Author : Stuart Neil Soroka
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0774809590

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Agenda-setting Dynamics in Canada by Stuart Neil Soroka Pdf

Why do public issues like the environment rise and fall in importance over time? To what extent can the trends in salience be explained by real-world factors? To what degree are they the product of interactions between media content, public opinion, and policymaking? This book surveys the development of eight issues in Canada over a decade -- AIDS, crime, the debt/deficit, the environment, inflation, national unity, taxes, and unemployment -- to explore how the salience of issues changes over time, and to examine why these changes are important to our understanding of everyday politics. Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada offers one of the first empirical analyses of the interaction of the media, the public, and policymakers in Canada and, more generally, makes an important contribution to the study of political communications and policymaking well beyond the Canadian context.

Author : Frank R. Baumgartner,Christian Breunig,Emiliano Grossman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198835332

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Comparative Policy Agendas by Frank R. Baumgartner,Christian Breunig,Emiliano Grossman Pdf

This book summarizes recent advances in the work on agenda-setting in a comparative perspective. The book first presents and explains the data-gathering effort undertaken within the Comparative Agendas Project over the past ten years. Individual country chapters then present the research undertaken within the many national projects. The third section illustrates the possibilities and directions for new research in comparative public policy using the data presented in this book. All the data used and discussed in the book is moreover publicly available. The book represents a significant contribution to the study of comparative public policy. By introducing a unified research infrastructure it opens up new possibilities for both empirical and theoretical research in this area.

Author : Miklós Sebők,Zsolt Boda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030732233

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Policy Agendas in Autocracy, and Hybrid Regimes by Miklós Sebők,Zsolt Boda Pdf

Over the past thirty years the comparative study of policy agendas under the aegis of the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) has become one of the fastest growing sub-field in policy research. Yet, similarly to policy studies in general, most of the agenda-setting literature focuses on well-established democracies. This edited volume offers a ground-breaking analysis of a hitherto less examined topic in comparative politics: the dynamics of policy agendas in Socialist autocracy and in hybrid regimes. We propose that policymaking in authoritarian and illiberal regimes is different from the practices of democracies which we analyse based on a unique historical policy agendas database built by the Hungarian CAP team at the Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest. We find that punctuated equilibrium theory offers a good description of policy dynamics regardless of policy regimes, yet punctuations are more pronounced in autocratic and illiberal settings. These regime types also share a tendency towards centralization, a less efficient use of public information and a suppression of democratic participation in the policy process. This book may be of interest to scholars and students of policy studies, agenda-setting and the politics of authoritarianism.

Author : Andrew Chadwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190696733

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The Hybrid Media System by Andrew Chadwick Pdf

New communication technologies have reshaped media and politics. But who are the new power players? The Hybrid Media System shows how the interactions among older and newer media technologies, genres, norms, behaviors, and organizational forms now shape power relations among political actors, media, and publics.

Author : Bjorn Erik Rasch,George Tsebelis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136870453

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The Role of Governments in Legislative Agenda Setting by Bjorn Erik Rasch,George Tsebelis Pdf

Setting the agenda for parliament is the most significant institutional weapon for governments to shape policy outcomes, because governments with significant agenda setting powers, like France or the UK, are able to produce the outcomes they prefer, while governments that lack agenda setting powers, such as the Netherlands and Italy in the beginning of the period examined, see their projects significantly altered by their Parliaments. With a strong comparative framework, this coherent volume examines fourteen countries and provides a detailed investigation into the mechanisms by which governments in different countries determine the agendas of their corresponding parliaments. It explores the three different ways that governments can shape legislative outcomes: institutional, partisan and positional, to make an important contribution to legislative politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, legislative studies/parliamentary research, governments/coalition politics, political economy, and policy studies.

Author : Robert H. Blank,Viola Burau,Ellen Kuhlmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350311879

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Comparative Health Policy by Robert H. Blank,Viola Burau,Ellen Kuhlmann Pdf

A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across a variety of systems. This revised fifth edition incorporates additional material on low/middle income countries, as well as broadened coverage relating to healthcare outside of hospitals and the ever-increasing diversity of the healthcare workforce today.

Author : P. John,A. Bertelli,W. Jennings,S. Bevan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230390409

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Policy Agendas in British Politics by P. John,A. Bertelli,W. Jennings,S. Bevan Pdf

Using a unique dataset spanning fifty years of policy-making in Britain, this book traces how topics like the economy, international affairs, and crime have shifted in importance. It takes a new approach to agenda setting called focused adaptation, and sheds new light on key points of change in British politics, such as Thatcherism and New Labour.

Author : S. Princen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230233966

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Agenda-Setting in the European Union by S. Princen Pdf

Why does the EU deal with some issues but not others? This is the central question of this book dedicated to agenda-setting processes in the EU. Through a comparison of EU and US policy agendas and the analysis of four case studies in environmental and health policy, this book offers a new understanding of how policy issues come onto the EU agenda.

Author : Christoph Knill,Jale Tosun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350311909

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Public Policy by Christoph Knill,Jale Tosun Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research. Bringing together analysis of classic works alongside the most recent developments in the field, this book is guided by the following three crucial questions: What is public policy? Who participates in making and putting public policy in practice as well as in assessing its success? And when and how does public policy change over time? In answering these questions, the book covers everything from the central institutions and actors of policy-making to implementation, evaluation and governance. Drawing on examples from across the world, the new edition expands on themes that were previously covered only marginally, including the underexplored connection between public policy and political economy, as well as placing more emphasis on climate change and practical advice on doing policy analysis. For undergraduate or postgraduate students studying on courses focussed on public policy or the policy cycle or process, this textbook is the essential guide to the subject. The book is also suited for those studying public policy in the context of politics or public management and administration. New to this Edition: - A revised conclusion containing guidance on how to do policy analysis. - Extended discussion of climate policy and politics. - Consideration of the effects of Brexit, the rise of populism and the impact of the loss of faith in globalization for international organizations. - More on policy process theories, comparative public policy, the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of public policy studies and new methodologies such as the evaluation of policy measures by means of social media data.

Author : Frank R. Baumgartner,Bryan D. Jones
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226039534

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Agendas and Instability in American Politics by Frank R. Baumgartner,Bryan D. Jones Pdf

When Agendas and Instability in American Politics appeared fifteen years ago, offering a profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the Journal of Politics predicted that it would “become a landmark study of public policy making and American politics.” That prediction proved true and, in this long-awaited second edition, Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner refine their influential argument and expand it to illuminate the workings of democracies beyond the United States. The authors retain all the substance of their contention that short-term, single-issue analyses cast public policy too narrowly as the result of cozy and dependable arrangements among politicians, interest groups, and the media. Jones and Baumgartner provide a different interpretation by taking the long view of several issues—including nuclear energy, urban affairs, smoking, and auto safety—to demonstrate that bursts of rapid, unpredictable policy change punctuate the patterns of stability more frequently associated with government. Featuring a new introduction and two additional chapters, this updated edition ensures that their findings will remain a touchstone of policy studies for many years to come.

Author : Oscar H. Gandy
Publisher : Ablex Publishing Corporation
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0893911941

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Beyond Agenda Setting by Oscar H. Gandy Pdf