Whose evidence? Agenda setting in multi-professional research: Observations from a case study

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Procter
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Professional Research

International Child Welfare: Deconstructing UNICEF's Country Programmes

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobhan E. Laird
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
International Child ◽  
The Family ◽  
Bretton Woods Institutions

There has been exhaustive scrutiny of the policies of the Bretton Woods institutions and the United Nations Population Fund. UNICEF, despite a prominent role in agenda setting for children's welfare in developing countries, has not been subject to comparable scrutiny. This paper argues that the Country Programmes promulgated by UNICEF to improve children's welfare reflect ethnocentric conceptualisations of the family. As a case study, Ghana's Country Programme 2001–2005 is considered in detail. Anthropological studies are adduced to highlight underlying ethnocentric assumptions around social organisation. The ramifications of these assumptions are then considered.

scholarly journals Using the president’s tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Lewandowsky ◽  
Michael Jetter ◽  
Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Increased Activity

Abstract Social media has arguably shifted political agenda-setting power away from mainstream media onto politicians. Current U.S. President Trump’s reliance on Twitter is unprecedented, but the underlying implications for agenda setting are poorly understood. Using the president as a case study, we present evidence suggesting that President Trump’s use of Twitter diverts crucial media (The New York Times and ABC News) from topics that are potentially harmful to him. We find that increased media coverage of the Mueller investigation is immediately followed by Trump tweeting increasingly about unrelated issues. This increased activity, in turn, is followed by a reduction in coverage of the Mueller investigation—a finding that is consistent with the hypothesis that President Trump’s tweets may also successfully divert the media from topics that he considers threatening. The pattern is absent in placebo analyses involving Brexit coverage and several other topics that do not present a political risk to the president. Our results are robust to the inclusion of numerous control variables and examination of several alternative explanations, although the generality of the successful diversion must be established by further investigation.

Agenda Setting and Immigrant Politics

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (9) ◽  
pp. 1235-1266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Landolt ◽  
Luin Goldring ◽  
Judith K. Bernhard
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Political Opportunity Structure ◽  
Political Opportunity ◽  
Opportunity Structure ◽  
Setting Process ◽  
Immigrant Politics ◽  
Over Time

The authors identify and analyze patterns of community organizing among Latin Americans in Toronto for the period from the 1970s to the 2000s as part of a broader analysis of Latin American immigrant politics. They draw on the concept of social fields to map Latin American community politics and to capture a wide range of relevant organizations, events, and strategic moments that feed into the constitution of more visible and formal organizations. Five distinct waves of Latin American migration to Toronto produce three types of community organizations: ethno-national, intersectional panethnic, and mainstream panethnic groupings. This migration pattern also leads to a layering process as established organizations evolve and new migrant groups with specific priorities and ways of organizing emerge. The authors present a case study of the development and agenda-setting process of the Centre for Spanish Speaking People, a mainstream, multiservice, panethnic organization. Agenda setting is defined as the process of defining the vision and mission of an organization or cluster of organizations. The case study captures how a mainstream panethnic organization mediates between diverse in-group agendas of Latin American immigrants and out-group, specifically, state-generated, agendas, and how this agenda-setting process changes over time in tune with shifts in the political opportunity structure. The authors propose, however, that agenda setting is a dialogic social process that involves more than navigating the existing political opportunity structure. Agenda setting involves in-group and out-group dialogues embedded within a complex organizational field. It is an instance of political learning. The analysis of these dialogues over time for a specific group and organization captures immigrant politics in practice.

scholarly journals Agenda setting and the political economy of fear: How crime news influences voters’ beliefs

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 520-533
Author(s):  
Paolo R Graziano ◽  
Marco Percoco
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
General Election ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Individual Perceptions ◽  
Crime News ◽  
The Media ◽  
Voting Decisions ◽  
Silvio Berlusconi

In this article, we analyse the mechanisms of agenda setting by focusing on the determinants of individual attitudes towards crime and investigating the role played by the media. After a brief literature review supporting the relevance of the selected topic of inquiry and the presentation of our analytical framework, we study the persuasion effects of mass media. More specifically, we investigate how TV exposure can shape individual perceptions of specific issues such as crime, and then focus on the effects of exposure to crime news on voting decisions. Using the Italian 2001 general election as an important case study of TV power concentration, we provide evidence that media-induced agenda setting enhanced the salience of the crime issue in voters’ minds during the 2001 Italian general election and contributed to the victory of the coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi. Interestingly, our results are partially driven by the switch of previous left-wing voters to voting for the centre right because of exposure to crime news.

scholarly journals Synergies and Fragmentation in Country Level Policy and Program Agenda Setting, Formulation and Implementation for Global Health Agendas: A Case Study of Health Security, Universal Health Coverage, and Health Promotion in Ghana and Sierra Leone

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Akua Agyepong ◽  
Fredline A.O. M’Cormack-Hale ◽  
Hannah Brown-Amoakoh ◽  
Abigail N.C. Derkyi-Kwarteng ◽  
Theresa Ethel Darkwa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Universal Health

Abstract Background: Global health agendas have in common the goal of contributing to population health outcome improvement. In theory therefore, whenever possible, country level policy and program agenda setting, formulation and implementation towards their attainment should be synergistic such that efforts towards one agenda promote efforts towards the other agendas. Observation suggests that this is not what happens in practice. Potential synergies are often unrealized and fragmentation is not uncommon. In this paper we present findings from an exploration of how and why synergies and fragmentation occur in country level policy and program agenda setting, formulation and implementation for the global health agendas of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Health Security (HS) and Health Promotion (HP) in Ghana and Sierra Leone. Our study design was a two country case study. Data collection involved document reviews and Key Informant interviews with national and sub-national level decision makers in both countries between July and December 2019. Additionally, in Ghana a stakeholder workshop in December 2019 was used to validate the draft analysis and conclusions. This study is part of a series of country case studies to inform the Lancet Commission on synergies between UHC, HS and HP.Results: National and global context, country health systems leadership and structure including resources were drivers of synergies and fragmentation. How global as well as country level actors mobilized power and exercised agency in policy and program agenda setting and implementation processes within country were also important drivers. Conclusions: There is potential in both countries to pull towards synergies and push against fragmentation in agenda setting, formulation and implementation of global health agendas despite the resource and other structural constraints. It however requires political and bureaucratic prioritization of synergies, as well as skilled leadership. It also requires considerable mobilization of country level actor exercise of agency to counter sometimes daunting contextual, systems and structural constraints.

A POLICY WINDOW OPENS: STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT IN YORK REGION, ONTARIO, CANADA

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 333-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
DENIS KIRCHHOFF ◽  
DAN MCCARTHY ◽  
DEBBE D. CRANDALL ◽  
LAURA MCDOWELL ◽  
GRAHAM WHITELAW
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Master Planning ◽  
Policy Window ◽  
Sustainability Strategy ◽  
Focusing Event ◽  
Municipal Level

Government agenda setting has been a focus of research in the field of policy sciences for over two decades. The concept of a policy window is explored as a driver of governmental agenda setting. The Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada was chosen as a case study for exploring the application of strategic environmental assessment at the municipal level through a policy window lens. Problem, policy and political streams converged to provide the necessary conditions for improved environmental assessment and infrastructure planning in York Region. A focusing event and the resulting crisis motivated stakeholders to identify and act on the problem. An SEA-type approach was initiated as one key response. A variety of activities were initiated by York Region including the development of a Sustainability Strategy, synchronisation of master planning, wider consideration of alternatives at the master plan level and improved public consultation. Conclusions are drawn and several recommendations are presented and discussed.

How to evaluate innovation strategies with a transformative ambition? A proposal for a structured, process-based approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 635-647
Author(s):  
Henning Kroll
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Regional Innovation Systems ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Policy Mixes ◽  
Innovation Strategies ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract In recent years, policymakers have increased their ambitions to shape the development of national and regional innovation systems. More often than was, innovation strategies now come with the ambition to support economic transformation and societal change in a way that requires the rearrangement of existing policy mixes. With a view to policy assessment, these developments raise new, so far untackled challenges. Against this background, this article illustrates that standard approaches to programme evaluation must be unfit to assess overarching strategies. It finds that this is not only a function of their complexity but also of the open-ended nature of processes required to translate strategic ambitions into concrete actions. To better grasp those, it puts forward a novel heuristic to structure our understanding of the discursive process preceding the definition of tangible policy measures at three levels: strategy agenda setting, thematic orientation, and instrumentation. Subsequently, it demonstrates how this approach helps localize and clarify instances of failure for later assessment. Based on a detailed case study, it underlines that efforts to ensure the consequential translation of ambitions into corresponding measures will lead to better results than the futile attempt to keep the resulting policy mixes free of any formal inconsistencies.

Six lessons from introducing sweetened beverage taxes in Berkeley, Cook County, and Philadelphia: A case study comparison in agenda setting and decision making

Health Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 124 (9) ◽  
pp. 932-942
Author(s):  
Luc L. Hagenaars ◽  
Milica Jevdjevic ◽  
Patrick P.T. Jeurissen ◽  
Niek S. Klazinga
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Cook County ◽  
Sweetened Beverage
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