Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems - A Comparative Approach

Before making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. This book features essays that make clear the efficacy of the agenda-setting approach for understanding not only how policies evolve, but also how political systems function.

About the author

Christoffer Green-Pedersen is professor of political science at Aarhus University, Denmark, and coeditor of Dismantling Public Policy. Stefaan Walgrave is professor of political science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and coeditor of The World Says No to War.

Summary

Before making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. This book features essays that make clear the efficacy of the agenda-setting approach for understanding not only how policies evolve, but also how political systems function.

Product details

• Authors: Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Christoffer Walgrave Green-Pedersen
• Assisted by: Christoffer Green-Pedersen (Editor), Green-Pedersen Christoffer (Editor), Stefaan Walgrave (Editor), Walgrave Stefaan (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2014
• EAN: 9780226128306
• ISBN: 978-0-226-12830-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Comparative Politics, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state