Abstract:Who and what influences the issues that policymakers attend to is central to the question of how power is exercised in politics. This study builds upon research by Soroka that proposes an expanded model of agenda setting as a means to examine how the media influences issue salience for the public and policymakers. It expands on Soroka's model by investigating the hypothesis that photographic attention to environmental issues in the news media influences issue salience for the mass public and governmental decis… Show more
“…A common theme was identifying the agenda‐setting power of the media and elites. News media outlets were found to have significant agenda‐setting impacts by both Stoddard and Tindall () and Jenner (), although it is important to keep in mind that the news media employs multiple frames and the presence of competing frames may mitigate their effects. Jenner's work identified an interesting phenomenon where environmental news photographs had a greater effect on elites' agendas than on the public's agenda.…”
Section: Patterns and Developments In The Literaturementioning
Using a large sample of articles and books published between 2012 and 2015, this review shows the recent trends in environmental politics and policy scholarship. Environmental policy scholarship has embraced the concept of governance to explain the variety of actors and institutions that surround environmental problems and solutions. Scholars in the past three years used theories and methods to capture these governing dynamics in far-reaching and complicated issues like climate change. This article discusses recent patterns in the literature and demonstrates that new methods, recent theoretical focuses, and even the environmental issues covered by scholars reflect the field's acknowledgement that scholars can and should account for complexity in their work. However, the literature has neglected certain regions and processes, such as the developing world and policy feedback processes, leaving significant gaps in our understanding.
“…A common theme was identifying the agenda‐setting power of the media and elites. News media outlets were found to have significant agenda‐setting impacts by both Stoddard and Tindall () and Jenner (), although it is important to keep in mind that the news media employs multiple frames and the presence of competing frames may mitigate their effects. Jenner's work identified an interesting phenomenon where environmental news photographs had a greater effect on elites' agendas than on the public's agenda.…”
Section: Patterns and Developments In The Literaturementioning
Using a large sample of articles and books published between 2012 and 2015, this review shows the recent trends in environmental politics and policy scholarship. Environmental policy scholarship has embraced the concept of governance to explain the variety of actors and institutions that surround environmental problems and solutions. Scholars in the past three years used theories and methods to capture these governing dynamics in far-reaching and complicated issues like climate change. This article discusses recent patterns in the literature and demonstrates that new methods, recent theoretical focuses, and even the environmental issues covered by scholars reflect the field's acknowledgement that scholars can and should account for complexity in their work. However, the literature has neglected certain regions and processes, such as the developing world and policy feedback processes, leaving significant gaps in our understanding.
“…Both are far from being gender‐neutral (Baumgartner and Jones , ) for they reflect power relations between the sexes (Lukes ). As Jenner (, 294) explains:… identifying who and what has influence over the problems policymakers attend to is central to the question of how power is exercised in politics … in the study of policymaking, research on agenda‐setting explores relationships with a single focus of interest: the salience of an issue.A further reason why issue salience in manifesto discourse matters to the SRW is because it is an indicator of party responsiveness to public opinion and exogenous interests concerned to advance the rights and representation of women. This is underpinned by earlier work that has explored how the public's policy preferences and priorities shape parties' political decisions and policy choices by setting limits of what is broadly acceptable (e.g., Cobb and Elder ; Page and Shapiro ; Erikson et al.…”
Section: The Substantive Representation Of Women: Does Issue‐saliencementioning
This article • Responds to recent calls for a more holistic approach to studying the substantive representation of women (SRW). Specifically, it explores the nexus between the SRW and issue-salience. A theoretically-informed review of the literature and analysis of party manifestos in UK elections 1945-2010 both confirm that this matters to contemporary understanding of the SRW. • Extends existing understanding of the substantive representation of women by reviewing relevant theory and providing new, empirical research findings. • Heeds earlier calls for the combination of content and critical discourse analysis in policy studies. Thus this mixed methodology responds to earlier calls for social research to 'humanize' quantitative data by focusing on language and meaning related to specific phenomena, notably from political actors' perspectives. • Includes a future research agenda emerging from the present study. It is one that will extend contemporary understanding of the substantive representation of women and generate debate and further research.The following discussion responds to recent calls for a more holistic approach to studying the substantive representation of women (SRW). It uses mixed methods to explore the nexus between the SRW and issue salience in the manifesto discourse of UK state-wide elections 1945-2010. The data show that issue salience does matter to the SRW because it is part of on-going patterns and processes of party politicization linked to electoral cycles. The present findings also affirm that whilst there has been a trend of increasing issue salience over the post-war period, the SRW has also been subject to periods of set-back and reversal. Thus its status amongst competing policy priorities remains 'fragile'; in turn, this raises issues of institutional sexism in the formative, agenda-setting phase of parties' public policy-making.
“…Van Aelst and Walgrave () observe a difference between the agenda‐setting effects of newspapers and television—positing that not all mediums behave similarly in the policy process. Eric Jenner () continues this line of research by looking at the disparity in agenda‐setting effects between newspaper articles and newspaper photographs on environmental issues. His approach measures how each affects issue salience for members of the public and policy spheres—harkening back to the Wolfe, Jones, and Baumgartner discussion of the bridge between public and policy agendas.…”
Existing literature on the agenda‐setting process is grounded and well cited in studies of U.S. national institutions, but emerging scholarship has taken the fundamental principles of agenda setting—attention, information, and learning—and has extended their applicability to understudied participants and institutions. This essay highlights three areas of study that have undergone particular growth during the last few years and best represent the trend of applying the well understood dynamics of agenda setting to a broader swath of participants in the policy process. We first examine how scholars have focused on agenda setting within U.S. state and local governments and the way these institutions balance their agenda‐setting needs internally, while still trying to be heard within a federal system. Second, we highlight policy scholars' contributions to create better definitions and measures of the relationship between the media and policy process. Finally, we explore the contributions to the broader agenda‐setting literature made by scholars examining non‐U.S. institutions. These three categories are but a part of the growing trend in the subfield to expand the scope of agenda‐setting research.
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