Agenda Setting

Literature Review on Agenda Setting

In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] David A. Rochefort offers the following summary about the topic of Agenda Setting: The agenda-setting model seeks to describe and explain the process by which certain political issues receive high-priority standing from decision-makers while others are neglected and fail to lead to government action. The model takes into account a large variety of factors, including triggering events, patterns of social conflict, the role of issue entrepreneurs, strategic use of political language, media coverage, and institutional rules and norms, in accounting for the behavior of officials in addressing social problems. Agenda-setting concepts have been employed within an extensive number of case studies covering diverse policy domains. Currently, the model is also undergoing expansion through its incorporation in comparative and transnational policy research.

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Notes and References

1. Entry about Agenda Setting in the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (2015, Routledge, Oxford, United Kingdom)

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Further Reading

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