文档介绍：Science of Public Policy Chapter 6 Agenda Setting, Power, and Interest Groups
Science of Public Policy
Xiaojie Zhang
Department of Public Administration
Northeastern University
Chapter 6 Agenda Setting, Power,
and Interest Groups
This chapter considers the processes by which groups work to elevate their issues on the agenda while denying other issues a place on the agenda1>.
Chapter 6 Agenda Setting, Power,
and Interest Groups
1. Agenda setting
Agenda: the list of things that are being discussed and sometimes acted upon by an institution, the news media, or the public at large.
Agenda setting: the process by which problems and alternative (备择的) solutions gain or lose public and elite attention, or the activities of various actors and groups to cause issues to gain greater attention or to prevent them from gaining attention.
Chapter 6 Agenda Setting, Power,
and Interest Groups
1. Agenda setting
petition to set the agenda is fierce because no society, political system, official actor, unofficial actor, or individual person has the capacity to address all possible alternatives to all possible problems that arise at any one time.
Groups must do the following things:
(1) Fight to earn their issues’ places among all the other issues
(2) Fight to ensure that their depiction of the issue remains in the forefront.
(3) Fight to ensure that their preferred approaches to the problem are those that are most actively considered.
Chapter 6 Agenda Setting, Power,
and Interest Groups
1. Agenda setting
Levels of the agenda
Systemic Agenda
Institutional Agenda
Decision
Agenda
Agenda Universe
Groups seeking policy change seek to advance issues closer to the decision agenda
Groups that oppose change seek to block issues from advancing on the agenda
Chapter 6 Agenda Setting, Power,
and Interest Groups
1. Agenda setting
Levels of the agenda
(1)agenda universe (全域议程)
the “largest” level of the agenda, it contains all ideas that could pos