BACKGROUND The Kingdon model, based on the convergence of three streams (problem, policy, and politics) and the opening of a policy window, analyses the process by which a health issue is placed on the political agenda. We used this model to document the political agenda-setting process of the newborn hearing screening programme in Belgium. METHODS A qualitative study based on a document revi...

The first part of this essay on mainstreaming women in development outlines the hard-won achievements of the women's movement in the past 20 years and acknowledges that the movement has failed to gain its fundamental objectives of transforming social and gender relations and creating a just and equal world. Considering the central question of why progress has been so elusive for women, the ess...

We propose two related equilibrium re…nements for voting and agenda-setting games, Sequentially Weakly Undominated Equilibrium (SWUE) and Markov Trembling Hand Perfect Equilibrium (MTHPE), and show how these equilibrium concepts eliminate non-intuitive equilibria that arise naturally in dynamic voting games and games in which random or deterministic sequences of agenda-setters make o¤ers to sev...

Before the internet, the important news of the day was mainly decided by the print newspapers. This paper addresses whether this is still the case in the digital age by investigating the intermedia agenda-setting influence of print newspapers. We analyzed whether new stories covered on the front pages of newspapers were also covered in other news outlets, and if so who covered them first. This ...

the knowledge and information science is more or less linked to other sciences due to its interdisciplinary nature. the interactions between different disciplines and taking advantage of each other’s knowledge can lead to problem solving and scientific advancements. due to the relationship between information and communication, knowledge and information science has many common issues with commu...

Collaborative writing (CW) in policy agenda setting and grant development is an important aspect of community development. However, solutions need to be found to better deal with distributed CW. This paper establishes a basis for improving distributed, CW for policy agenda setting, and similar efforts, by using a Internet-based collaborative tool. This work utilizes key research to better under...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of using citizen politics as a framework for empowering citizens to build a community food security agenda. DESIGN A critical perspective, case study design, and multiple qualitative methods were used. PARTICIPANTS/SETTING Forty-four participants were purposefully recruited to participate in a community-based planning process called a search conferen...