About this title: Re-issued as part of the "Longman Classics in Political Science" series, Kingdon's renowned work features a new Foreword exploring the book's historical and enduring contributions. Kingdon's landmark work on agenda setting and policy formation is now offered in a Longman Classics Edition. This enduring work of original research, drawn from ...
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Description: Good. Ex-library copy. Usual library stamps and stickers. Moderate wear including some peeling of the protective film on the cover. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Longman Higher Education
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780673394552ISBN:0673394557
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PEARSON EDUCATION (US) Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780321121851ISBN:0321121856
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 280 pages. (253 pages) first published in 1984, this explanation of the policy-making process in the united states described agenda setting as the ability to define "the list of subjects to which government officials and those around them are paying serious attention. " kingdon (u. of michigan) identifies three streams tha illustrations edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson Education
Date Published: 1997-01-10
ISBN-13:9780673523891ISBN:0673523896
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Longman Higher Education
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780673394552ISBN:0673394557
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780321121851ISBN:0321121856
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Longman
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780321121851ISBN:0321121856
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Longman
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780321121851ISBN:0321121856
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"Agenda setting, in the world of politics, is when a problem becomes identified as an issue that calls for government attention, discussion, and--possibly--decision making. This book is one of the most important works on agenda-setting.
John Kingdon has stated that:
Political events flow along according to their own dynamics and their own rules. Participants perceive swings in national mood, elections bring new administrations to power and new partisan or ideological distributions to Congress, and interest groups of various descriptions press (or fail to press) their demands on government.
The author sees three streams that must come together for an issue to be placed on the agenda--a political stream (just noted above), a policy stream (in which some policy proposal emerges as "best"), and a problem stream (a problem develops that people label as important). If they come together and if the window of opportunity for success is there, then the issue can become an agenda item. If the streams do not come together, agenda placement is unsuccessful--as with President Clinton's health care plan. That plan had two of three requirements in place. One, the political stream was supportive. A new President had been elected with his party having a majority in both houses of Congress; furthermore, Clinton outlined as a campaign issue support for a more ambitious health care program for Americans. The confluence of these two factors produced something like a "mandate" for change. Two, the problem stream saw health care bubbling up toward the top. That is, increasingly, people seemed to define health care as a serious problem about which something had to be done.
Nonetheless, no major initiative emerged to be fully considered. Clinton's plan was very nearly DOA (dead on arrival) once serious discussion began. Why? No single policy proposal garnered enough support. Democrats supported several different plans--such as a single payer system (in which government becomes the insurer), "pay or play" (in which businesses would largely fund health care insurance), and the Clinton plan itself (which focused on managed care). Thus, the policy stream never did "come together" around any single proposal. As a result, the initiative died and no substantial changes were forthcoming in the health care system.
What emerges in each stream is, to a large extent, "contingent," depending upon many factors--including chance. The result is unpredictability.
It may be that this work overemphasizes chance and contingency and underplays the role of human agency (for instance, the role of policy entrepreneurs who labot to get issues placed on the agenda and acted upon). Nonetheless, this is an exemplary work and well worth attending to if one is interested in setting the political agenda."
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