Setting the policy agenda for combating the abuse of new psychoactive substances in the republic of croatia

Abstract

Although the Early Warning System on New Psychoactive Substances in the Republic of Croatia was established in 2007, the phenomenon of new psychoactive substances only recently began garnering attention. This surge in attention is largely due to reports from other EU countries on intoxications and deaths connected to these, as well as the increased availability of these substances in specialized shops (“smart shops”) and on the internet. This paper demonstrates the agenda-setting process in relation to the policy for combating new psychoactive substances abuse in Croatia by using the phase model or the policy-cycle model of policy-making process. The agenda-setting phase is characterized by a presentation of a specific problem as an important public policy issue; therefore, the aim of this paper is to discuss activities, circumstances and actors that are important for agenda setting of the policy for combating new psychoactive substances in Croatia.

Construção da agenda de inclusão financeira à luz da Teoria Ator-Rede

“…Through this perspective, the ANT bas been used in the studies on public policies in several fields (Andrade, 2006;Fornazin & Joia, 2015;Jerković & Petak, 2017;Pinto & Domenico, 2014;Ramos, 2009) for it provides understanding on the process of public policies as a collective construction, which integrates different actors (individuals and groups, governmental or non-governmental) who interact and are influenced by several structural or relational factors. Thus, this theory can be used as a theoretical lens to analyze the process of agenda-setting, which is understood as a continuous process of association among different actors in a way that none of them prevails, but the whole network does.…”