A 40-Year Retrospective of John Kingdon’s Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies

Introduction2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of John Kingdon’s path-breaking book, Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies (1984/2011). While he was not the first to study the dynamics of agenda-setting in the policy process, his work was able to captivate academic interest with...

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Hauptverfasser: Zahariadis, Nikolaos, Petridou, Evangelia
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: International Review of Public Policy 2025
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of John Kingdon’s path-breaking book, Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies (1984/2011). While he was not the first to study the dynamics of agenda-setting in the policy process, his work was able to captivate academic interest with its intuitive simplicity, theoretical richness, and empirical validation. Indeed, a recent study (DeLeo et al., 2024, p. 2) finds that a simple Google Scholar search yields over 30,000 citations o...