John W. Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, Boston: Little, Brown, 1984, xi + 240 pp., $9.95.

The Politics of Priority Setting for Reproductive Health: Breast and Cervical Cancer in Ghana

“…In this paper, I define a ''policy priority'' as a specific health issue that is receiving attention or consideration on the policy agenda [19]. An issue is considered to have obtained policy attention if policymakers (or those closely associated with them) explicitly decide to address an issue or not.…”

Policy Entrepreneurship and Policy Transfer: Flood Risk Governance in Northern Sweden

“…Crises as decision arenas have been well documented in the literature . Dror (1993, p. 13) recognizes opportunities crises present due to 'the softening of institutional rigidities, which consequently open up new vistas for political and social feasibility', in other words, Kingdon's window of opportunity that becomes a propitious time for policy change (Kingdon, 1984). Lindh and Edler, the public official instrumental to the creation of the Coordination Group acted as policy and bureaucratic entrepreneurs respectively because of the following strategies:…”

A network approach for distinguishing ethical issues in research and development

“…e Central notions in our network approach, in addition to stakes, interests, knowledge, recourses and power, will be 'problem definitions' and 'agendas'.' 17,18,19 'Problem definition' refers to the different actor perceptions or interpretations of what is the central issue in the network. In our case, the various actors, for example, interpret the risks of GSBRs differently.…”