Agenda Setting and Policy Development, Higher Education
Bacevic, J., & Nokkala, T. (2018). Agenda Setting and Policy Development, Higher Education. In P. Teixeira, & J. Shin (Eds.), Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions (pp. 1-6). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_137-1
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Agenda setting is one of key concepts in the critical or interpretative approaches in the study of policy
development. Developed in response to positivist paradigms, which saw policies as largely technical
solutions to objectively existing problems, critical or interpretive analysis emphasises the constructed,
contingent, and processual nature of policies, in particular the role of differently positioned actors in
bringing specific issues to the fore (Fischer, 2003). In this sense, the use of agenda setting in the
research on higher education policy is fundamentally related to the questions of political power and
influence, and thus to the relationship between longer-term structural change and stability, on the one
hand, and individual or collective agency, on the other.
In broad terms, agenda setting refers to the capacity of an actor (individual, group, organisation,
institution) to define or influence issues on the public agenda. This occurs in two ways: on the one
hand, selecting issues seen as important or relevant (thematisation or problematisation); on the other,
shaping the way these issues are framed, discussed and interpreted (framing or interpretation). While
policy processes normally involve elements of both, their analysis can be traced to two relatively
distinct disciplinary traditions, one largely reliant on political science, and the other on
communication and media studies. This article summarises the main elements of both traditions, and
then delineates their convergences and implications for higher education policy research.
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