Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies
1995 · HarperCollinsCollege
Overview
A classic agenda-setting orientation for the Multiple Streams Framework.
Core Question
How do problems, policies, politics, opportunities, and actors shape agenda change?
Central Argument
Agenda change requires analysis of distinct streams, timing, actors, and coupling rather than a post-hoc three-factor story.
Theoretical Contribution
Anchors the Multiple Streams Framework's agenda-setting vocabulary.
Theory Relationships
- Multiple Streams Framework — founding text
Reading Focus
- Trace the separate development of streams and a claimed coupling event.
- Keep the work's agenda-setting scope distinct from implementation.
Legal Access Path
- Open the authoritative bibliographic record — Use the linked publisher, DOI, university, journal, library, or institutional record to locate lawful access through a library or the rights holder.
Sources & verification
- VerifiedThe linked record verifies this work's bibliographic details and lawful access route. — Kingdon, J. W. (1995). Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (2nd ed.). HarperCollinsCollege.
- Editorially ReviewedThe central argument, theoretical contribution, relationship, and reading emphasis are bounded Syntag editorial syntheses, not quotations or claims of universal consensus.
- Research GuidanceReading priorities should be adapted to the research question, prior knowledge, access, and disciplinary guidance.
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