Exam 6: Agenda Setting, Power, and Interest Groups

Data points that fall outside the range of the bulk of the data points are called

Anecdotal evidence may be as persuasive in causal stories as rigorous scientific analysis.

Any issue, problem or idea that could be considered in the policy process that does not fall outside various social and political norms in a particular society is found on the

Explain what role the media might play in overcoming the power of "iron triangles" or other tightly integrated policy subsystems.

Muckraking is a term applied to

The scarcity of policy windows is mainly due to

Causal stories are told about how problems come to be the way they are, and how they can be solved.

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

Causal stories are a part of the policy process by virtue of being:

John Kingdon frames his discussion of agenda change by introducing what concept or concepts?

The theory that states that a few people in government, business, academia, and the media have a disproportionate share of the control over America's political and economic resources is called

What functions of the media might make the agenda setting process more democratic?

According to Stone one purpose of using numbers in problem definition is