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pa 874: session 3

Agenda Setting - Overview. Theoretical Importance- Why is Agenda Setting Important?John Kingdon's Contributions in Agendas, Alternatives, and Public PoliciesAgenda Setting in Practice. Theoretical Importance. Pluralism as the Accepted Theory of Democracy in the 1950s and 1960s:Democracy a Fluid Process By Which the People's Wishes are Translated in to Policy;More or Less Equal Access to the System

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pa 874: session 3

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    1. PA 874: Session 3 Agenda Setting

    3. Theoretical Importance Pluralism as the Accepted Theory of Democracy in the 1950s and 1960s: Democracy a Fluid Process By Which the Peoples Wishes are Translated in to Policy; More or Less Equal Access to the System Through the Electoral Process Through Interest Groups Through Media Exposure to Problems of the Poor, etc.

    4. Theoretical Importance (Cont.) Two Major Challenges: Which Issues Never Make the Agenda at All? Whos Issues Result in Real Political Action? Elite Theory as Competitor Non-Issues as Important Issues Elites (often economic) control both Issues and Non-Issues

    5. Kingdons: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies John Kingdon What the Book Is About? How ideas move to alternatives and then policies The Agenda Setting Process Basic Approaches? Methods? Case Studies Quasi-Structured Interviews

    6. Basic Theory Three Separate and Independent Streams Come Together in Evolutionary Manner Windows of Opportunity Highly Fluid Interactions of Streams: Coupling of Problems and Policies The Role of Entrepreneurs

    7. Theory - Details Participants Administration Capitol Hill Bureaucracy Different from Administration Non-Governmental: Interest Groups; Associations Academics; Policy Experts; Think Tanks Media As Policy Networks?

    8. Theory Details (Cont.) Agenda Setting Process Other Theories Rational, Comprehensive Incremental Garbage Can: Closer to What He Advocates But Kingdon Sees More Definition of the Factors Offers a Revised Theory

    9. Theory Details (Cont.) Problem Stream Focusing Events 9/11; Katrina Media Role Elections? Policy Stream Evolutionary Natural Selection Policy Entrepreneurs Survival and Diffusion

    10. Theory Details (Cont.) Political Stream National Mood Organized Political Forces Interest Groups Government Forces Agency Agendas Consensus Building Policy Windows and Coupling Streams

    11. In Practice --- Is it right? Experiences out there? What kind of evidence would we need? Hypotheses? Predictions? Or is it a Heuristic? To help understand something about a very complex process?

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