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HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA SETTING Nikolaos Zahariadis - 9781784715915 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 04/07/2017 08:13:42AM via University College London M4063 - ZAHARIADIS 9781784715915 PRINT.indd 1 26/09/2016 14:12 HANDBOOKS OF RESEARCH ON PUBLIC POLICY Series Editor: Frank Fischer, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA The objective of this series is to publish Handbooks that offer comprehensive overviews of the very latest research within the key areas in the field of public policy. Under the guidance of the Series Editor, Frank Fischer, the aim is to produce prestigious high-quality works of lasting significance. Each Handbook will consist of original, peer-reviewed contributions by leading authorities, selected by an editor who is a recognized leader in the field. The emphasis is on the most important concepts and research as well as expanding debate and indicating the likely research agenda for the future. The Handbooks will aim to give a comprehensive overview of the debates and research positions in each key area of focus. Titles in the series include: International Handbook on Ageing and Public Policy Edited by Sarah Harper and Kate Hamblin Handbook on Complexity and Public Policy Edited by Robert Geyer and Paul Cairney Handbook of Critical Policy Studies Edited by Frank Fischer, Douglas Torgerson, Anna Durnová and Michael Orsini Handbook of Public Policy Agenda Setting Edited by Nikolaos Zahariadis Nikolaos Zahariadis - 9781784715915 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 04/07/2017 08:13:42AM via University College London M4063 - ZAHARIADIS 9781784715915 PRINT.indd 2 26/09/2016 14:12 Handbook of Public Policy Agenda Setting Edited by Nikolaos Zahariadis Department of International Studies, Rhodes College, USA HANDBOOKS OF RESEARCH ON PUBLIC POLICY Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA Nikolaos Zahariadis - 9781784715915 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 04/07/2017 08:13:42AM via University College London M4063 - ZAHARIADIS 9781784715915 PRINT.indd 3 26/09/2016 14:12 © Nikolaos Zahariadis 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited The Lypiatts 15 Lansdown Road Cheltenham Glos GL50 2JA UK Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. William Pratt House 9 Dewey Court Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2016942167 This book is available electronically in the Social and Political Science subject collection DOI 10.4337/9781784715922 ISBN 978 1 78471 591 5 (cased) ISBN 978 1 78471 592 2 (eBook) Typeset by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire Nikolaos Zahariadis - 9781784715915 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 04/07/2017 08:13:42AM via University College London 1 0 M4063 - ZAHARIADIS 9781784715915 PRINT.indd 4 26/09/2016 14:12 To Karolina, Safe travels . . . Nikolaos Zahariadis - 9781784715915 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 04/07/2017 08:13:42AM via University College London M4063 - ZAHARIADIS 9781784715915 PRINT.indd 5 26/09/2016 14:12 Nikolaos Zahariadis - 9781784715915 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 04/07/2017 08:13:42AM via University College London M4063 - ZAHARIADIS 9781784715915 PRINT.indd 6 26/09/2016 14:12 Contents List of contributors x Acknowledgements xv List of abbreviations xvii 1 Setting the agenda on agenda setting: definitions, concepts, and controversies 1 Nikolaos Zahariadis PART I PEOPLE AND CONTEXT 2 A radical idea tamed: the work of Roger Cobb and Charles Elder 25 Bryan D. Jones 3 Agenda setting, problem definition, and their contributions to a political policy analysis 35 David A. Rochefort 4 John Kingdon and the evolutionary approach to public policy and agenda setting 53 Frank R. Baumgartner PART II THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS 5 Punctuated equilibrium theory 69 Christoffer Green- Pedersen and Sebastiaan Princen 6 Multiple streams approach: a flexible metaphor presents an opportunity to operationalize agenda setting processes 87 Paul Cairney and Nikolaos Zahariadis 7 Making sense of complexity: the narrative policy framework and agenda setting 106 Holly L. Peterson and Michael D. Jones 8 Constructivism and agenda setting 132 Sabine Saurugger vii Nikolaos Zahariadis - 9781784715915 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 04/07/2017 08:13:42AM via University College London M4063 - ZAHARIADIS 9781784715915 PRINT.indd 7 26/09/2016 14:12 viii Handbook of public policy agenda setting PART III INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSIONS 9 Political agenda setting by the mass media: ten years of research, 2005–2015 157 Peter Van Aelst and Stefaan Walgrave 10 Policy entrepreneurs and agenda setting 180 Nissim Cohen 11 Interest groups and agenda setting 200 Laura Chaqués Bonafont 12 Political parties and the policy agenda 217 Vilém Novotný, Michel Perottino, and Martin Polášek 13 Presidential power and agenda setting 236 Paul Rutledge 14 The domestication of a “wild” problem: taming policy agenda setting 254 Philippe Zittoun 15 Knowledge, epistemic communities, and agenda setting 273 Claire A. Dunlop PART IV COMPARATIVE APPLICATIONS ACROSS LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT 16 Local government agenda setting 297 Rebecca Eissler, Peter B. Mortensen, and Annelise Russell 17 Agenda setting dynamics and differences across issues: agenda setting on the economy and foreign policy 314 Jeffrey S. Peake 18 Communications policy in the European Union: the UK as a policy entrepreneur 332 Alison Harcourt 19 Agenda setting in the European Union: from sui generis to mainstream 348 Sebastiaan Princen 20 The United Nations and agenda setting 367 Jutta Joachim and Natalia Dalmer Nikolaos Zahariadis - 9781784715915 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 04/07/2017 08:13:42AM via University College London M4063 - ZAHARIADIS 9781784715915 PRINT.indd 8 26/09/2016 14:12 Contents ix PART V AGENDAS AND CRISES 21 Attention and natural disasters 389 Thomas A. Birkland 22 Institutional crisis and the policy agenda 415 Christopher Ansell, Arjen Boin, and Sanneke Kuipers 23 Financial regulation and agenda dynamics: impacts of the global financial crisis 433 Roy Gava 24 Discursive institutionalism, problem definition, and the consequences of crisis for agenda setting 457 Stella Ladi Index 471 Nikolaos Zahariadis - 9781784715915 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 04/07/2017 08:13:42AM via University College London M4063 - ZAHARIADIS 9781784715915 PRINT.indd 9 26/09/2016 14:12 Contributors Peter Van Aelst is Professor in Political Communication at the University of Antwerp, Belgium and a founding member of the research group “Media, Movements and Politics” (www.M2P.be). His research deals with political news, election campaigns, social movements and (new) media, and political agenda setting, among other topics. Christopher Ansell is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. His fields of interest include governance, public policy, and organization theory and he is the author of Pragmatist Democracy: Evolutionary Learning as Public Philosophy (2011). Frank R. Baumgartner is the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He studied for all of his academic degrees at the University of Michigan, USA from 1976 to 1986 and lists John Kingdon as one of his prime academic mentors from his undergraduate days to the present. His book with Bryan D. Jones, Agendas and Instability in American Politics (1993), won the Aaron Wildavsky Award for a work of lasting influence from the American Political Science Association Section Public on Public Policy, as did Kingdon’s Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policy (1995). Thomas A. Birkland is the William T. Kretzer Professor of Public Policy at North Carolina State University, USA. He is the author of two books, After Disaster (1997) and Lessons of Disaster (2009), as well as the policy textbook An Introduction to the Policy Process (2010) and many articles and book chapters on disasters, focusing events, and agenda setting. Arjen Boin is Professor of Public Institutions and Governance in the Department of Political Science at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Paul Cairney is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of Stirling, UK. He blogs on public policy at https://paulcairney.wordpress. com/ and tweets @CairneyPaul. His research interests include compar- ing theories on evidence and policy (The Politics of Evidence- Based Policymaking, 2016 and Understanding Public Policy, 2012), the use of evidence to promote tobacco control (Global Tobacco Control, 2012 with x Nikolaos Zahariadis - 9781784715915 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 04/07/2017 08:13:42AM via University College London M4063 - ZAHARIADIS 9781784715915 PRINT.indd 10 26/09/2016 14:12
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