Why are policy agendas punctuated? Friction and cascading in parliament and mass media in Belgium

Walgrave, Stefaan; Vliegenthart, Rens

doi:10.1080/13501763.2010.513562

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“…Once the political pack starts to move, actors look at one another's behavior, ignoring the underlying signal that initially triggered the stampede. A cyclical imitative process leads to a burst of political attention (Walgrave & Vliegenthart, 2010). Note that we are talking about a similar process here as discussed earlier when we covered how citizens suddenly overcome their personal threshold to address an issue, leading to a cascade.…”

Section: The Nonlinear Influence Of Media Attention On Politicians' Amentioning

confidence: 87%

The Nonlinear Effect of Information on Political Attention: Media Storms and U.S. Congressional Hearings

Walgrave

Boydstun²,

Vliegenthart

et al. 2017

Political Communication

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Agenda-setting scholars have claimed that the typical punctuated pattern of governmental attention is a consequence of disproportionate information processing. Yet these claims remain unsubstantiated. We tackle this challenge by considering mass media coverage as a source of information for political actors and by examining the relationship between preceding media information and subsequent governmental attention. Employing data capturing U.S. media attention and congressional hearings (1996-2006), we find that the effects of media attention on congressional attention are conditioned by the presence of "media storms"-sudden and large surges in media attention to a given topic. A one-story increase in media attention has a greater effect on congressional attention in the context of a media storm, since media storms surpass a key threshold for catching policymakers' attention. We find evidence that the influence of media attention on political attention is nonlinear; agenda-setting operates differently when the media are in storm mode.

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Section: The Nonlinear Influence Of Media Attention On Politicians' Amentioning

confidence: 87%

The Nonlinear Effect of Information on Political Attention: Media Storms and U.S. Congressional Hearings

Walgrave

Boydstun²,

Vliegenthart

et al. 2017

Political Communication

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“…Figure 2 shows event coverage follows a power law: most events are mentioned only once while a few events are mentioned repeatedly. (Andrews and Caren 2010, Seguin 2016, van de Rijt et al 2013, Walgrave and Vliegenthart 2010. Figure 3 conveys the proportion of total event mentions accounted for by the most-mentioned events.…”

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Black Protest Events In The Us 1994-2010: Issues, Campaigns And Trends

Oliver¹,

Hanna²,

Lim³

2019

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This paper fills a major empirical gap in providing the first systematic data about US Black movement protests between the 1994 and 2010. There is a dearth of systematic information about the Black movement and Black protests between 1995 and its reemergence in Black Lives Matter in 2012. Using a new automated system, we identified 1017 events in 1049 news wire stories relevant to Black protest between 1994 and 2010 from the Annotated English Gigaword file. These data provide insight into Black activism in the between 1994 and 2010 and identify themes that are salient for both the resurgence of the Black Lives Movement after 2012 and the rise of White supremacist movements. Over a third of all protest events are about policing, generally about police violence. Other major themes include direct struggles over White vs. Black symbolic representations and access to resources, including protests over Confederate symbols, abolition of affirmative action programs, and White supremacists. The 1995 Million Man March shows up as having a significant connection to subsequent mobilization, a relationship that is confirmed by historical accounts. A third of the protests are around a wide variety of other specific issues that will require more detailed classification. Time trends show active and rising Black mobilization in the 1990s through 2001 that was interrupted by the 9/11 terror attacks and not significantly resumed until 2006-7. Overall, most protests in this era appear to have been reacting against attacks on existing benefits rather than proactively seeking new benefits. Methodologically, we show the importance of maintaining information about both events and coverage of events and of identifying the relations between events using the concepts of campaign, master event, and subevent. NOTE: This is a draft paper based on a preliminary analysis of data. We are continuing to refine the analysis and revise the paper. Please check with us for the latest version if you wish to cite the paper. This is a wholesale revision of a 2017 paper based on what turned out to be only a subset of the events in the newswire stories, due to an error in the selection of stories fed into the MPEDS classifier.

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“…Dès lors, les rapports de domination entre acteurs pourront être remis en cause (ibid. : 15 ; Walgrave et Vliegenthart, 2010: 1166. Cette ponctuation, ce changement rapide et radical, découle d'une chaîne de conséquences.…”

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Fédéralisme belge et venue shopping : le cas de la téléphonie mobile

Deblander

Schiffino

2012

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La réorganisation institutionnelle intervenue en 2009 dans la politique publique belge de télécommunications mobiles est singulière. Considérant la perméabilité d’un État fédéral à certaines stratégies des coalitions de cause, cet article teste l’hypothèse selon laquelle, outre l’approche institutionnaliste, le processus de fédéralisation peut s’expliquer par les stratégies des acteurs lésés sur les arènes décisionnelles (venue shopping) et sur les images de politique publique (framing). De plus, s’appuyant sur les stratégies initiées par les coalitions de cause, les institutions, en l’occurrence les entités fédérées, peuvent également se comporter en acteurs stratégiques, accroissant leur autonomie dans un État fédéral de nature centrifuge.The institutional change, noticed in 2009 in the Belgian mobile telecommunications’ policy, is remarkable. Taking into account that federal states make the achievement of advocacy coalitions’ strategies easier, this article is based on the assumption that, in addition to the institutionalist theory, federalization may be explained by strategies of “losing coalitions”—who want a privileged position in public policies—on venues and on framing. Furthermore, leaning on the path opened up by advocacy coalitions, institutions—in this situation Regions—can also be conceived as strategic actors, increasing their autonomy in a centrifugal federal state

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Why are policy agendas punctuated? Friction and cascading in parliament and mass media in Belgium

Cited by 36 publications

References 16 publications

The Nonlinear Effect of Information on Political Attention: Media Storms and U.S. Congressional Hearings

The Nonlinear Effect of Information on Political Attention: Media Storms and U.S. Congressional Hearings

Black Protest Events In The Us 1994-2010: Issues, Campaigns And Trends

Fédéralisme belge et venue shopping : le cas de la téléphonie mobile

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