Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Forever Changed, Hurricane Harvey
14 Dec 2017
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Be able to define what is meant by policy agenda. Understand how issues get onto the policy agenda and why some issues are prioritized over others. Be able to compare the roles of different actors in setting the policy agenda. When they do this they are prioritizing issues. Agenda setting: the formal process through which a policy and the problem it is intended to address are acknowledged to be of public interest. Factors that influence a government"s agenda o. Election promises: advice from public service o o o o. Where do you find the policy agenda? o. Speech from the throne, electoral platforms, budgets, mandate letters. Different types of policy agendas o discussion agenda: highly visible issues that are topic of discussion. Topic of discussion o decision agenda: formal agenda that govt has decided to address. Things that a government has already decided to address. Why make policies in the wake of a crisis? o.
