Ten US presidential elections ago in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the agenda of issues that a small group of undecided voters regarded as the most important ones of the day was compared with the news coverage of public issues in the news media these voters used to follow the campaign (McCombs and Shaw, 1972). Since that election, the principal finding in Chapel Hill*/those aspects of public aff...

We use a two-issue bargaining model with asymmetric information to study agent choice of how to structure bargaining. We uncover the settings in which di¤erent agenda structures are chosen in equilibrium, how the order in which issues are bargained over matters, and what impact the rules for implementing agreements have. If agreements are implemented as they are reached, “easy” issues are negot...

A revolutionary entrepreneur strategically chooses the revolutionary agenda to maximize the likelihood of revolution. Citizens have different preferences and can contribute varying degrees of support. This presents the revolutionary entrepreneur with a tradeoff between extensive and intensive margins of support. We show: (1) Extremists exert a disproportionate influence over the revolutionary a...

this short literature review argues that the resource-based view (rbv) school of strategic management has recently become of increased interest to scholars of healthcare organizations. rbv links well to the broader interest in more effective knowledge mobilization (km) in healthcare. the paper outlines and discusses key concepts, texts and authors from the rbv tradition and gives recent example...

The policy literature often mentions the agenda-setting influence of focusing events, but few policy studies systematically examine the dynamics of these events. This article closes this gap by examining focusing events, group mobilization and agenda-setting. Using natural disasters and industrial accidents as examples, most focusing events change the dominant issues on the agenda in a policy d...

and undramatic, issues.

What happens after public issues attain agenda status? Exploring this question in the context of one instance of social protest in Israel, the 1990 ‘tents movement’, this paper focuses on government reaction and the way it successfully disintegrated the movement. A movement that proved strong enough to put the housing problem on the national agenda, and to keep it there for a few months, has ha...

Physical and cognitive aspects of ageing affect people’s interaction with the environment.