Political Priority and Policy Process: A Recent Example from Bangladesh

Abstract

Political priority is one of the most important elements in agenda setting as it mirrors the interest of political actors to take a specific problem over others. Not only at the agenda setting stage but political priority also plays a significant role in policy formulation, implementation and evaluation. Kingdon in his Stream Model emphasised on three elements i.e. problem stream, proposal stream and politics stream, and for a successful agenda setting it is essential that these three steams come together and turned into a policy decision. This article is an effort to see how political priorities and political commitments make a specific problem as policy agenda and contribute to the cause

Understanding political priority development for public health issues in Turkey: lessons from tobacco control and road safety

“…The disproportionate strength of the political stream could be explained by the fact that modern day Turkey evolved from a strong state tradition [75], where the position of the Prime Minister is held, most commonly, by the leader of the winning political party. Rabbani and Baroi also alluded to the immense power held by the Prime Minister in Bangladesh, referring to this individual as the “ supreme policy decision maker ” ([76], p. 250) and emphasising that, if high-level politicians advocate for an issue, it is quickly prioritised.…”