Handbook of Public Policy Agenda Setting

Edited by Nikolaos Zahariadis, Mertie Buckman Chair and Professor of International Studies, Rhodes College and Kristin Taylor, Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Wayne State University, USA

‘This edition enhances an essential guide for scholars and policy practitioners who seek to understand the forces that shape policy agendas and their consequences for policymaking and governing. The update retains the historical, theoretical, and empirical strengths of the prior edition while adding timely insights about how agendas shape policy action and inaction concerning different types of crises and other contemporary issues. The distinguished set of international authors provides a rich mix of scholarly perspectives about policy processes that greatly expand the appeal of this Handbook.’

• Contents1 Setting the agenda on agenda setting: definitions, concepts, andcontroversies 1Nikolaos ZahariadisPART I PEOPLE AND CONTEXT2 A radical idea tamed: the work of Roger Cobb and Charles Elder 23Bryan D. Jones3 Agenda setting, problem definition, and their contributions to apolitical policy analysis 32David A. Rochefort4 John Kingdon and the evolutionary approach to public policy andagenda setting 47Frank R. Baumgartner5 Dynamic duo of policy dynamics: The legacy of FrankBaumgartner and Bryan Jones 59Rebecca Eissler and Annelise Russell6 Agenda setting and the advocacy coalition framework 72Christopher M. Weible and Hank C. Jenkins-SmithPART II THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS7 Punctuated equilibrium theory 89Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Sebastiaan Princen8 The multiple streams framework: agenda setting and windows ofopportunity for policy change 105Paul Cairney and Nikolaos Zahariadis9 Making sense of complexity: the narrative policy framework andagenda setting 122Holly L. Peterson, Hayley Booth and Michael D. Jones10 Constructivism and agenda setting 137Sabine SauruggerPART IIIINSTITUTIONAL DILEMMAS11 Media effects and the processes of politics 154Fred Vultee12 Policy entrepreneurs and agenda setting 170Nissim Cohen13 Interest groups and agenda setting 186Laura Chaqués Bonafont14 Political parties and agenda setting 202Vilém Novotný, Michel Perottino, Kim Roskam and Martin Polášek15 Presidential power and agenda setting 220Paul Rutledge16 The domestication of a “wild” problem: taming policy agendasetting 236Philippe Zittoun17 Knowledge, epistemic communities, and agenda setting 254Claire A. Dunlop18 Policy inaction and agenda setting 271Prudence R. Brown and Alastair StarkPART IVCOMPARATIVE APPLICATIONS ACROSS LEVELS OFGOVERNMENT19 Local government agenda setting 287Rebecca Eissler, Peter B. Mortensen and Annelise Russell20 Agenda setting in foreign and economic policy 303Jeffrey S. Peake21 Digital market policy in the European Union: the UK as a policyentrepreneur 319Alison Harcourt22 Agenda setting in the European Union: from sui generis tomainstream 334Sebastiaan Princen23 Agenda setting in the United Nations 350Jutta Joachim and Natalia DalmerPART V AGENDAS AND CRISES24 Disaster risk reduction: The evolution of an international agenda 365Jörgen Sparf25 Institutional crisis and the policy agenda 383Christopher Ansell, Arjen Boin and Sanneke Kuipers26 Discursive institutionalism, problem definition, and theconsequences of crisis for agenda setting: the case of the Covid19 crisis 398Stella Ladi27 Focusing events and attention 408Thomas A. Birkland, Rob A. DeLeo and Kristin Taylor28 Putting out fires: policy styles and crisis agenda setting 436Evangelia Petridou and Amalia Triantafillidou