Comparative Policy Agendas

Download or read book Comparative Policy Agendas written by Frank R. Baumgartner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government attention is limited. And there is strong competition for this limited attention. Parties, interest groups, or the media permanently try to influence the government agenda. This book provides original insights into the processes and forces driving attention from one issue to another. It builds on data from more than fifteen countries that has been collected over a period of over fifteen years following strictly equivalent research protocols. The book presents original cross-country analyses of these processes and outlines directions for future research.