Abstract Engaging non-experts in matters of science and technology has been increasingly stressed both rhetoric action during the past decades. Under call for moving participation upstream, agenda setting processes have identified as viable entry point laypeople’s experiential value-based knowledge into science, innovation governance (STI). Harnessing visioning target promises to elicit such kn...

The need for a clear research and policy agenda to assist early stage Cleantech financing has never been greater. These businesses may hold important keys unlocking vital globally game changing technologies tackle climate change. This article provides an overview of recent academic literature proposes small- medium-sized enterprises (SME) finance. With growing interest in how support innovation...

The prevalence of obesity is rising rapidly in Australia. This issue can be a priority for agenda setting, by using the Hall and Kingdon models. Furthermore, current policy may need to reviewed or updated because high rate death.

Weisberg for guidance during this project. We would also like to extend our gratitude to Erin MacDonald and Joe Lyons for invaluable assistance in coding data. All data are available by request. 2 All duties on this paper were shared equally by the authors. Name order is presented alphabetically.

Framing effects and bounded rationality imply that election campaigns may be an important determinant of election outcomes. This paper uses a two-party setting and simple game theoretic models to analyse the strategic interaction between the parties’ campaign decisions. Alternations of power emerge naturally, even if both electoral preferences and party positions remain constant.

BACKGROUND HIV/AIDS control are one of the most important goals of the health systems. The aim of this study was to determine how HIV/AIDS control was initiated among policy makers' agenda setting in Iran. METHODS A qualitative research (semi-structured interview) was conducted using Kingdon's framework (problem, policy and politics streams, and policy windows and policy entrepreneurs) to ana...

AUTHORS’ NOTE: The research reported on here was supported by a Grant from the University of Michigan’s Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Three factors lead to the hypothesis that agenda-setting should be weaker at the local political level compared to the national level: (1) the more directly observable nature of local political problems, (2) the nature and strength of local interp...

The main contribution of this study to the understanding of agenda-setting and priming effects is its focus on the role of evaluative tone in all stages of the agenda setting/ priming process. First, the public’s evaluation of issue importance, which is the dependent variable in most agenda-setting studies, is influenced by the issue saliency in the news and by the evaluative tone of media cove...