How Issues Move Up and Down the Government Agenda - Comparison and Evaluation of Models (German, Paperback)

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Organisation und Verwaltung, Note: 1,00, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH (School of Humanities and Social Sciences), Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Comment of the professor: This is an excellent piece of work. Your prose is very effective: clear, fluent and coherent. The essay engages very intensively with the literature. I like the way you retrace the genealogy and evolution of these concepts. Although I would tend to agree that Kingdon is a pretty neat model, I would not go so far as to favour one over the other. For a L their strengths and weaknesses each of the models offers us some unique insight into the policy process. The essay is superbly structured. A strong argument is supported by a logical squeeze of sections. Well done: 1.00, Abstract: (...) If policies are reactions to social problems, prior to action policymakers must determine what the most pressing issues are that deserve government attention. Policymakers are not only pushed by various interest groups, think tanks, and other organized constituents to pay attention to different issues, but are also in disagreement among each other regarding which issues merit space on the agenda (Dery, 2000, p. 39). The question therefore is: Who decides what a problem is and if it deserves government attention? And more importantly, how does policy agenda change and what role do policy actors play in this context? This essay attempts to find an answer to these questions. It aims to explain why, for instance, child care in the US suddenly moved from relative obscurity to the government agenda (Nelson, 1984). Further, what was decisive for education to become a highly important agenda item in the same period when child care became high-profile? This essay will show that neither the pluralist, nor the iron triangle framework is able to provide a convincing explanation. It will argue that agenda setting is a political power struggle in a highly complex and dynamic proce