Agenda-setting is a key component in the democratic process if
political outsiders are to have their concerns taken seriously.
However, their efforts sometimes fail for reasons other than
insufficient resources or incompetent leaders: opponents often
succeed in keeping new issues from ever reaching the agendas of
decision-makers.
This is the first book devoted to examining why some issues
proposed by aggrieved individuals or groups are denied access to
policy agendas. It develops a theoretical framework for the study
of agenda setting and agenda denial, emphasizing the cultural
strategies opponents use to impede and defeat policy initiatives,
and examining specific strategies of avoidance, attack, and
redefinition that explain why certain issues don't receive
consideration.
The book contains seven case studies that examine the policy
process from the perspective of the strategies opponents of policy
initiatives use and demonstrate that agenda denial can result when
opponents succeed in portraying initiatives as threats to widely
held world views and identities. Four cases involving federal
agencies show how the Securities and Exchange Commission and the
Food and Drug Administration have kept issues off their own
agendas, how the accounting profession has avoided SEC regulation,
and how pro-life forces kept the French abortion pill off the FDA
agenda. Two cases focusing on public health issues examine why
national health insurance has never made it onto the federal agenda
and how local agencies in Texas prevented residents of minority
neighborhoods from obtaining clean water. Finally, a case from
outside the U.S. shows how Kurt Waldheim's Nazi past failed to
become an issue in his campaign for President of Austria.
While most books emphasize issue initiators, Cultural Strategies
of Agenda Denial makes a unique addition to the agenda-setting
literature by focusing on the actions of opponents and emphasizing
the political importance of cultural resources and culturally
constituted ideas to the ongoing debate in political science
concerning how open and democratic our system really is.
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