When Does Government Listen to the Public? Voluntary Associations and Dynamic Agenda Representation in the United States
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Standard
When Does Government Listen to the Public? Voluntary Associations and Dynamic Agenda Representation in the United States. / Bevan, Shaun; Rasmussen, Anne.
In: Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 48, No. 1, 01.02.2020, p. 111-132.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Harvard
APA
Vancouver
Author
Bibtex
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
T1 - When Does Government Listen to the Public?
T2 - Voluntary Associations and Dynamic Agenda Representation in the United States
AU - Bevan, Shaun
AU - Rasmussen, Anne
PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - The aim of the paper is to examine how the population size of voluntary associations affects the process through which the public’s issue priorities are translated into policy priorities. We conduct a time-series analysis of political attention in executive and legislative agendas at the US federal level in the period 1971-2001 covering all issues addressed by the US government. We show that the number of voluntary associations in a policy area has a positive conditioning effect on the link between public priorities and attention for the President's State of the Union Address. However, our results do not find a positive effect for voluntary associations at later stages of the policy cycle which experience a higher degree of institutional friction. The findings underline the importance of distinguishing between different stages of policy-making when considering the impact of voluntary associations on dynamic agenda responsiveness.
AB - The aim of the paper is to examine how the population size of voluntary associations affects the process through which the public’s issue priorities are translated into policy priorities. We conduct a time-series analysis of political attention in executive and legislative agendas at the US federal level in the period 1971-2001 covering all issues addressed by the US government. We show that the number of voluntary associations in a policy area has a positive conditioning effect on the link between public priorities and attention for the President's State of the Union Address. However, our results do not find a positive effect for voluntary associations at later stages of the policy cycle which experience a higher degree of institutional friction. The findings underline the importance of distinguishing between different stages of policy-making when considering the impact of voluntary associations on dynamic agenda responsiveness.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - policy agendas
KW - voluntary associations
KW - responsiveness
U2 - 10.1111/psj.12231
DO - 10.1111/psj.12231
M3 - Journal article
VL - 48
SP - 111
EP - 132
JO - Policy Studies Journal
JF - Policy Studies Journal
SN - 0190-292X
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 182298957