Agenda-Setting and the European Union

Abstract

Political agenda setting is a matter of problem definition and prioritisation which takes place in multiple venues and involves interactions between different actors advocating their issue frames and policy preferences. In the complex multi-level governance system of the EU, vague and shifting jurisdictional boundaries encourage venue shopping and policy entrepreneurship. The EU agenda is also influenced by institutions and organised groups in its member countries, regional and local levels, as well as in the international arena. This panel aims to attract papers addressing general aspects of the EU agenda-setting process, e.g. the involvement and power of different actors, the interplay of issues and dynamics of attention, the conditions for moving issues across levels and policy-making venues, or the interaction between the supranational, national, and/ or subnational arenas in the multi-level process of determining the European agenda. The panel also welcomes papers focusing on agenda setting in specific policy fields in the EU.

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