Agenda Setting in Policy-Making Using Visualization Techniques

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koji Koyamada ◽  
Nobuyuki Kukimoto
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Visualization Techniques

Inner Unity and Regional Diversity in Unified Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-17
Author(s):  
Helga A. Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
German Unification ◽  
Regional Diversity ◽  
Special Place ◽  
East West

German unification prompted expectations of harmonization in political culture and promises of equivalent living conditions across the federation. Almost three decades later, the revival of narratives based on East-West differences has raised concerns whether inner unity, a term coined to describe political and material convergence across the former East-West divide, has stagnated or fallen behind. Frustration with the process of unification based on East-West contrasts, however, tends to downplay achievements and, importantly, regional diversity across the federation. I advocate a shift in perspective to the subnational (Land and communal) levels and illustrate regional variation with examples that address equivalent living conditions and demographic change. North-South differences coexist with East-West and within-region differences, suggesting not two but four or five Germanies. The eastern regions still occupy a special place in the unified Germany; they contribute to agenda setting and policy making with important implications across the federation.

scholarly journals Democratic Policy Making with Real-Time Agenda Setting: Part 1

10.3386/w8973 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Douglas Bernheim ◽  
Antonio Rangel ◽  
Luis Rayo
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making

Courts and Executives

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Yates ◽  
Scott Boddery
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Legal Authority ◽  
Judicial Selection ◽  
American Law

We examine existing empirical studies addressing the intersection of American courts and the Executive and explore multiple aspects of dynamics between these two primary branches of government. We assay the literature on the formal powers of the president and how courts have shaped and adjusted the legal authority and reach of the federal executive. We also investigate how presidents can influence American public policy through less direct pathways such as agenda-setting. However, one of the president’s most renowned powers is that of appointment—and we assess how presidents have helped shape the landscape of American law through the appointment of judicial actors and consider the politics of the federal judicial selection process. Finally, we address the president’s primary legal arm—the Solicitor General’s Office—and investigate the office’s influence on Supreme Court policy-making.

9. The European Commission

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Egeberg
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
International Organization ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
Implementation Programme

This chapter focuses on the European Commission, arguing that it is more productive to compare it to national executives or to a government than to a secretariat of a traditional international organization. It first provides an overview of the Commission's functions within the European Union's policy-making process, including agenda-setting, policy implementation, programme management, and external relations, and notes that the Commission plays a more limited role in foreign, security, and defence policy. The chapter proceeds by discussing the question of Commission influence and autonomy, along with the structure, demography, and decision behaviour within the Commission. It also describes committees and administrative networks that link the Commission to national administrations and interest groups, as well as the recent growth of EU agencies.

scholarly journals Laying the Groundwork: Linking Internal Agenda-Setting Processes of Interest Groups to Their Role in Policy Making

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (8) ◽  
pp. 1337-1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren R. Halpin ◽  
Bert Fraussen
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Qualitative Evidence ◽  
Heuristic Device

Although scholarship has highlighted the role of stakeholders in policy making, less is known about the preparations they make that lay the groundwork for their lobbying activities. This article links ideas on collaborative governance with the study of agenda setting within interest groups. We outline an orthodox mode of agenda setting that anticipates groups possess a proactive policy mode, an institutionalized policy platform, and a pyramid-like agenda structure. Subsequently, we use this orthodox mode as a heuristic device for examining agenda structures and processes, combining survey data on the practices of groups in Australia with illustrative qualitative evidence.

scholarly journals Generating Future-Oriented Energy Policies and Technologies from the Multidisciplinary Group Discussions by Text-Mining-Based Identification of Topics and Experts

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong Suh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Energy Research ◽  
Energy Policies ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Multidisciplinary Group

With increasing problems and challenging issues for sustainability under climate change, energy research has gained a lot of global attention from citizens, business and government on an important mission to make energy available in sustainable and clean ways. Moreover, as the bigger energy issues get, the more closely they are related to humans, so the multidisciplinary approach in energy research by integrating human sciences in energy domain has been called for and recognized to be of immense importance. However, so far most of the energy research has focused on one side such as economics and technology innovation. In addition, there have been limits to policymakers’ taking multidisciplinary perspectives for agenda-setting and policy-making on energy issues for future society under climate change. In this context, this paper proposes a systematic approach for agenda-setting and policy-making in future-oriented and multidisciplinary perspectives. In particular, it applies text-mining techniques to designing multidisciplinary group discussions and generates energy policies and technologies (EP&Ts) for the future society from the multidisciplinary perspectives. The proposed method was applied to South Korea. To sum up, the core energy-specific future trends in South Korea were identified and subsequently the top-priority future-oriented EP&Ts were generated for South Korea as follows: (i) real-time plan for electricity usage; (ii) purchase system, specialized for green energy products; (iii) cooperation association for sustainability; (iv) donating self-produced energy; (v) social media-based energy policy portal; and (vi) expert system designing the eco-friendly and low-energy indoor and outdoor designs. Thus, this paper has its novelty as the first trial that combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches for building up future-oriented strategies from the balanced and multidisciplinary perspectives. Eventually, it will help deal with bigger problems and grand challenges that our future energy society should overcome to sustain under climate change.

scholarly journals Ministerial Autonomy, Parliamentary Scrutiny and Government Reform Output in Parliamentary Democracies

2021 ◽  
pp. 001041402110243
Author(s):  
Hanna Bäck ◽  
Wolfgang C. Müller ◽  
Mariyana Angelova ◽  
Daniel Strobl
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Government Reform ◽  
Democratic Accountability ◽  
Limited Impact ◽  
Parliamentary Democracies ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
The Government

One of the most important decisions coalition partners make when forming a government is the division of ministries. Ministerial portfolios provide the party in charge with considerable informational and agenda-setting advantages, which parties can use to shape policies according to their preferences. Oversight mechanisms in parliaments play a central role in mitigating ministerial policy discretion, allowing coalition partners to control each other even though power has been delegated to individual ministers. However, we know relatively little about how such mechanisms influence the agenda-setting and gatekeeping powers of ministers and how much influence minister parties have on policy output relative to the government as a whole in different institutional settings. We fill this gap by analyzing original data on over 2000 important social and economic policy reform measures adopted in nine Western European countries over 20 years, based on a coding of more than 1200 country reports issued by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). We find that parliaments with strong oversight powers constrain the agenda-setting capacity of minister parties but have limited impact on their gatekeeping capacity. Our findings have important implications for our understanding of policy-making and democratic accountability.

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