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‘If you want a policy to be adopted, you first have to get decision-makers to talk about it.’ This could be a very brief summary of why ‘agenda-setting’ has become such an important topic in political science and policy studies. Agenda-setting is not concerned with the actual decisions that are taken, but with the issues that decision-makers devote attention to: the issues they talk about, think about, write about and take into consideration.
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© 2009 Sebastiaan Princen
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Princen, S. (2009). Studying Policy Agendas in the EU. In: Agenda-Setting in the European Union. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230233966_1
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