Agenda Setting in Public Policy

Indicators, Focusing Event

and Agenda Change
 Agenda
• A list of things to be consider or done,
• An ideological plan and program
• Represent the problem , issue for its proper
solution and efficient output,
• Public policy include public interest, issues,
problem which are including in agenda
• Pubic policy is the best output from
alternative agenda’s
 Indicator
• Report ,Government publication, Statistical
data
 Issue of Problem what indicate as change in
unemployment rates, inflation rate, GDP, wage
level, pollution level, crime, birth, death,
development ..
 How we know about issue for agenda?
 Which agenda is the best among alternatives?
• Selection of Issue/ list out
• As per necessity agenda will form among
concern group/society/ state due to change in
indicator
• Indicator need to publicized by interest group
,leader, government agencies, policy
entrepreneurs, the news media or members of
the public to pay attention to new problem for
policy idea and agenda
 Focusing Event
• Focusing event are sudden, relatively rare events that spark
intense media and public attention because of their sheer
magnitude or, sometimes, because of harm they reveal.
• Some special feature which create public attention
• ie terrorist attack, airplain accident, industrial accident, large
protest rallies/marches, scandal in government,
• leader, government agencies, policy entrepreneurs, the news
media or members of the public to pay attention to new
problems or pay greater attention to existing problems and
potentially, can lead to search for solutions in the wake of
perceived policy failure,
• Most active members of a policy community
may learn of an event some hours before the
general public, because they have a more
direct stake in the response to it and its
outcome.
• Elite have more concern
 Agenda Setting
• Popular agenda
• Expert Professional Agenda
• Community agenda
• Bureaucracy agenda
 Agenda setting process..
• Issue: raised, Observe ,identified, owned
• Agenda set
• Enter political domain-interest / power play
• Convert into program/ action
• Enter into bureaucratic domain
• Implementation
• Evaluation
• Input for agenda revision and implementation
 In context of Nepal…
Agenda :
 Technology
 Education
 Employment
 Environment conservation
 Empowered people
 Globalization
 Infrastructural development
• Issues are different as per time
difference/Change(History)

Agenda setting include values of;

 Democratic
 Inclusive
 Participatory
 Diverse and Pluralist
 Sovereign
 Socialistic
 Conclusion…
• How group ,power and the agenda interact to
set the political policy debate
• Better and more readily available data are
enabling researchers to understand why and
under what circumstances policy change is
likely to occur.
Thank YOU