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Focusing Events, Mobilization, and Agenda Setting
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This article examined the dynamics of focusing events, group mobilization and agenda-setting, and found that focusing events change the dominant issues on the agenda in a policy domain, they can lead to interest group mobilization, and groups often actively seek to expand or contain issues after a focusing event.Abstract:
The policy literature often mentions the agenda-setting influence of focusing events, but few policy studies systematically examine the dynamics of these events. This article closes this gap by examining focusing events, group mobilization and agenda-setting. Using natural disasters and industrial accidents as examples, most focusing events change the dominant issues on the agenda in a policy domain, they can lead to interest group mobilization, and groups often actively seek to expand or contain issues after a focusing event. I explain how differences in the composition of policy communities and the nature of the events themselves influence group and agenda dynamics. The organization of policy communities is an important factor in agenda setting, but agenda setting and group politics vary considerably with the type of event and the nature of the policy community.read more
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The Mass Media's Political Agenda-Setting Power: A Longitudinal Analysis of Media, Parliament, and Government in Belgium (1993 to 2000)
TL;DR: Do mass media determine or codetermine the political agenda? Available answers on this question are mixed and contradictory as discussed by the authors, and results vary in terms of the type of political agenda under scrutiny, th...
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Building Food Democracy: Exploring Civic Food Networks and Newly Emerging Forms of Food Citizenship
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore possible new analytical frameworks for the study of contemporary dynamics in food networks and develop the concept of "civic food networks" as an overarching concept to explore contemporary dynamics and sources of innovation within agrifood networks.
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When Policies Undo Themselves: Self-Undermining Feedback as a Source of Policy Change
Alan M. Jacobs,R. Kent Weaver +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a theoretical framework for identifying feedback mechanisms through which policies can become self-undermining over time, increasing the likelihood of a major change in policy orientation, and illustrate three types of selfundermining feedback mechanisms that they expect to operate in democratic politics: the emergence of unanticipated losses for mobilized social interests, interactions between strategic elites and loss-averse voters, and expansions of the menu of policy alternatives.
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The Formation of Large‐scale Collaborative Resource Management Institutions: Clarifying the Roles of Stakeholders, Science, and Institutions
Tanya Heikkila,Andrea K. Gerlak +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the emergence of collaborative institutional arrangements for managing natural resources in large-scale and complex resource settings, among numerous political jurisdictions and stakeholders, is explored, focusing on four regional institutions in the United States: the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, the Chesapeake Bay Program, the CALFED BayDelta Program, and the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan.
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The Rise and Fall of Social Problems: A Public Arenas Model
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