Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Information Source

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Melanie McPhail

Document Summary

Outline: what is the policy agenda, how do issues get on the policy agenda, agenda setting and policy change under crisis, non-decision making, who sets the agenda, priorities and the policy agenda. Issue identification: agenda setting, policy design/development, evaluation & monitoring. What is agenda setting: agenda setting: the process through which a policy and the problem it is intended to address are acknowledged to be of public interest. The process which a policy/problem is identified as it is intended to act upon it. It is acknowledged to be a public interest, so it is something that the public is concerned about or should be concerned about. The formal process of taking issues/problems and putting it on the formal list that the government, non-profit, or agency is hoping to act upon: factors that influence a government"s agenda differ from government to government. Advice from public service: e. g. information that has been passed up to them from different ministries/departments.