Exam 6: Agenda Setting, Power, and Interest Groups

Draw the levels of the agenda and briefly explain each level's importance.

How can the meaning of symbols change and be interpreted differently? What is an example?

The systemic agenda consists of all issues that are commonly perceived by members of the political community as meriting public attention.

Explain what Schattschneider means when he states that every political organization is a "mobilization of bias."

Focusing events are frequent events.

Indicators refer to the ways in which we as a society and the various contending interests within it structure and tell the stories about how problems come to be the way they are.

Because policy decisions can be made at a variety of points in the political system, there are also several institutional agendas.

A complex combination of factors is generally responsible for the movement of a given item into agenda prominence.

One weakness of causal stories is that they fail to assign responsibility for problems.

Describe agenda setting and give an example.

Which of the following is an example of a condition?

Explain what role the media might play in overcoming the "second face of power."

One weakness of causal stories is that they fail to assign responsibility for problems.

When a window of opportunity opens for a particular policy area, this increases the chances that a window will open in a related policy domain. This is an example of:

Focusing events are usually rare events.

An agenda in the policy process refers to

Explain the difference between a condition and a problem.

Draw the levels of the agenda and briefly explain their importance.

The changes in numbers themselves as problem indicators have influence over which issues gain attention.

Social construction is the process by which issues and problems are defined by society.