[39] define six levels arranged on a spectrum with increasingly required resources (time, knowledge, funds): learn/inform, participate, consult, involve, collaborate and lead/support. However, the inclusion of laypeople into futures studies and foresight in general, and into forward-looking STI governance in particular, is underexplored. https://doi.org/10.1108/FS-04-2016-0017, Etzkowitz H, Leydesdorff L (1995) The triple helix -- university-industry-government relations: a laboratory for knowledge based economic development. Public Opmion Quarterly, Vol. stakeholder communities. Kingdon: Theory of Multiple Streams Explains why some issues reach the agenda and are prominent and others are not. Referring to the concept of undone science [56], Balzs et al. The process involves a variety of interests is seen as the strengths of the policy cycle because the decisions are more rational. Analysis of 25-year Scottish public consultations revealed that just 32% of those invited to engage in a given consultation do, in fact, participate. Matschoss et al. Three streams Problem stream: Represents information and events that may unchain a series of events related to placing or eliminating an issue from the agenda. (2017). In fact, the typology takes the view of policymakers consistent with the policy instruments literature and asks what tools can they deploy to get control of their agenda, or to steer it in ways that they see fit. Technol Forecast Soc Chang 115:313326. While Agenda setting . Managing the demands making it onto the governmental agenda, Establishing working groups, set-piece policy consultations on discussion papers, parliamentary inquiries, taskforces taking submissions, Permitting issues (back) on the governmental agenda at set intervals, Sunset clauses in legislation; Statutory Reviews, Fostering policy demands to help proactively shape governmental agenda, Funding of (or procuring research from) think tanks, interest groups, consultants to foster demands, Unilaterally install government issue priority onto the agenda in absence of consultation (especially after change of government, focussing event or crisis), Policy statements by the Executive, Exclusive Summits, Govt. Another way to expand on the typology of agenda-setting instruments is to link it to the discussion of high versus low-cost strategies, developed by Cobb and Ross (Citation1997). [85] emphasise that it was mainly participants with a specific professional interest who took part in their study, which lead to biassed knowledge production, whilst Fritz and Binder [83] conclude that the agenda of the participatory setting affected the actor composition. This corresponds to Selin et al. Continuity of the process and face-to-face participation were procedural aspects identified to support co-creation: whilst a series of workshops provided a sense of stability for participants, who were thus able to build sequential lines of arguments [81], ongoing network activities over several years provided the necessary trust for sharing sensible data and practices which were then copied, adapted, and combined [84]. One can imagine using parliamentary inquiries to foster new demands especially if they are committees chaired by opposition parties. NG is the sole author of this article. [79] find that the respective PASE was successful in contextualising global sustainability issues by highlighting regional research needs. [84] found that the room created for reflection had an emancipatory effect as it committed participants to changing unsatisfactory and oppressive realities. In general, there are three main arguments that are presented the most when examining why public participation is necessary for political decision-making [33]. Mediators facilitated discussions between scientists, policymakers, and the public, supported by the co-creation of boundary objects such as data-driven models, to stimulate complex systems thinking in order to imagine alternative futures. Research programme development acts as an early entry point for public needs and values into the innovation process [71, 72]. The following section presents an analysis of their content with regard to limits and benefits of participatory agenda setting processes and discusses the results in relation to the literature. In discussing illustrative examples of policy tools used to manage demands, following Capano and Howlett (Citation2019), we also briefly comment on the mechanisms that underpin these four strategies. Public Underst Sci 2(4):321337. Sci Public Policy 39(2):208221. Scholars have a well-developed literature that captures the way policymakers deploy sets of policy instruments or tools to make or develop public policy. Alongside anticipation, inclusion and responsiveness, reflexivity is one of the main dimensions of the concept of RRI (Stilgoe, [91]), and defined as ability to reflect on values and beliefs during research and development [14]. These are the boundaries in between which researchers later navigate when proposing their intended research. Pagliarino et al. The first is to consider arena-based agenda-setting instruments contrasting those in the administrative, legislative, and public arenas. Gudowsky, N. Limits and benefits of participatory agenda setting for research and innovation. Privacy They investigate both the effects and epistemic community and translation processes within PASE, and conclude that their effectiveness depends primarily on the translation and transference of results to relevant arenas as well as relevant networks and actors. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40309-021-00177-0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40309-021-00177-0. Minerva. [85] conclude that the examined PASE exercise created reflection on and momentum for pressing research needs. It is argued that they might be understood as falling into types that seek to routinise demands (such as consultations and stakeholder events), regularise demands (such as legislative sunset clauses and scheduled reviews), and generate demands (such as funding policy publics). Eur J Futur Res 2(1), Joss S, Bellucci S (2002) Participatory technology assessment European perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scs026, Article (2016). RRI emerged from preceding and ongoing developments in technology assessment, anticipatory governance or upstream engagement (Owen, [7]). Actors within more basic research-oriented fields, e.g. Participatory science governance is a broadening field and it has been criticised mainly for failing to reach the intended impact, in both formal settings [41] and informal ones [42]. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732305276687, Strauss A, Corbin JM (1990) Basics of qualitative research: grounded theory procedures and techniques. Clearly, organisers participatory skills play a major role, especially with regard to the co-creation of knowledge. This current topical collection collects theoretical contributions as well as empirical papers regarding cases and methods of participatory agenda setting activities to map international progress in this upcoming field of research and practice. Society 56(3):246255. Enabling mutual learning and reflexivity lays the foundation for (knowledge) co-creation [93,94,95,96]. Pagliarino et al. The vast literature on social problems, policy problems, and so on, have emphasised (rightly) that policymakers like all political agents will use language, storytelling and framing strategies to direct the attention of those with whom they engage (Baumgartner & Jones, Citation1991; Kingdon, Citation1984). A nascent strand of this important work concerns the agend-asetting phase, where scholars aim to understand the instruments procedural and substantive that government uses to shape the issues that it has to address. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193579, Gastil J (2017) In: Jamieson KH, Kahan DM, Scheufele DA (eds) Designing public deliberation at the intersection of science and public policy. The modest contribution here has been to think of ways that the vast array of practices deployed by government to manage policy demands assuming that limited time, resources and attention, mean that they will ideally seek to filter out some demands might be systematically organized. Schroth et al. Science and Public Policy, Pratt B, Merritt M, Hyder AA (2016) Towards deep inclusion for equity-oriented health research priority-setting: a working model. Did you know that with a free Taylor & Francis Online account you can gain access to the following benefits? From the perspective of engaging with interest groups, and thus a consultative or consensus policy style, we might usefully divide agenda-setting instruments into types that seek to (a) routinise demands (such as consultations and stakeholder events), (b) regularise demands (such as legislative sunset clauses and scheduled reviews), or (c) generate demands (such as funding policy publics). The political costs of policy coherence: Constructing a rural policy for Scotland, Distribution, regulation, redistribution: The functions of government, Interest groups and public policy: The insider/outsider model revisited, Policy coherence and componentdriven policymaking: Arctic policy in Canada and the United States, Policy capacities for effective policy designs: A revuew. Social processes in lobbyist agenda development: A longitudinal network analysis of interest groups and legislation, Policy instruments: Typologies and theories, Setting the agenda in the U.S. Senate: A theory of problem selection, Policy capacity: A conceptual framework for understanding policy competences and capabilities. In their pilot study, the authors describe how a large variety of participants, including actors outside of academia or research funding, engaged in a series of events. The third possibility is to use the typology as a basis to develop propositions and hypothesis which can foster more empirical work and theoretical treatment of the role of procedural policy tools in the agenda-setting phase of the policy process. Balzs et al. Of course, this tool can also be pressed into service to lock in agendas. in nanotechnologies [58]. It includes contributions from several disciplines and interdisciplines as well as adjacent fields, including futures studies, foresight, technology assessment (TA), science and technology studies (STS), design and innovation management. Sci Public Policy 39(2):135139. the organisers agency or normativity, unreflected power relations within or insufficient inclusiveness of the process, a lack of skills and resources as well as inadequate quality of the results. c. Regardless of the synchronicity with political cycles, the dominant mechanism this family of instruments relies on to impose policy demands is legitimation. Good decisions are not solely generated from the implementation of all stages in the policy cycle however policy-making without all stages has less chance of success. [31], however, describe a gradual and incomplete shift from understanding to engagement, or, in short, from deficit to dialogue. The theory is important in agenda setting because of the. This paper aims to fill this gap by identifying different types of agenda-setting tools deployed by government which are used to shape engagement from organised interests. It is a reasonable assumption to make that tools to manage policy demands vary in their complexity (e.g. Others conclude that stakeholders active participation in a networked PASE activity was mainly the result of the fact that the activities content originated from real needs and concrete research questions, and that their personal attitudes and values were crucial to the process [84]. BMC Med Ethics 17(1):33. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-016-0117-1, Turb A, Barba J, Pelacho M, Mugdal S, Robinson LD, Serrano-Sanz F, Sanz F, Tsinaraki C, Rubio J-M, Schade S (2019) Understanding the citizen science landscape for European environmental policy: an assessment and recommendations. Abstract This chapter presents the various phases and questions concerning policy agenda setting. As institutions shifted towards public engagement and more activities were requested and commissioned, a participation industry came to life [35], keeping public participation alive until today, in some countries more than in others. Sci Public Policy 33(7):478488. Boden M, Johnston R, Scapolo F (2012) The role of FTA in responding to grand challenges: a new approach for STI policy? Diversifying stakeholder dialogues and enabling citizens to demonstrate greater agency enhances reflexive capacities [80]. Sci Public Policy 37(1):718, Burget M, Bardone E, Pedaste M (2017) Definitions and conceptual dimensions of responsible research and innovation: a literature review. For more information please visit our Permissions help page. Special Issue Participatory Methods for Information Society. Health Res Policy Syst 16(1):79. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-018-0352-7, Mitton C, Smith N, Peacock S, Evoy B, Abelson J (2009) Public participation in health care priority setting: a scoping review. Here, the question of whom to engage in such settings has evolved considerably over the years, whilst the triple helix has long been the main model for a reflexive innovation system, involving academia, industry and governments [18]. Framing is a concept which is commonly used to understand the media effects. In that context, creating regular systems of policy review can help to build new communities around the imposed agenda. Thus, the principal mechanism relied on to generate policy demands is mobilisation. 2. NanoEthics 10(1):6374. Thus, it is reasonable to expect that many instruments will be directed to managing these recurring items. Resp Innov:2750. These tools are classified as those which governments use to routinise demands, regularise demands, generate demands, and impose issues onto the agenda. In particular, guided by the literature from agenda setting, attitude strength, and the hierarchy of effects, the analysis tested hypotheses about the relationships among media coverage, public. It is regarded as the extension of agenda setting theory which prioritize an issue and makes the audience think about its effects. [82] find that facilitating the adaptation and translation of issues and concepts for specific target audiences is a key step that should receive greater attention in multi-stage processes. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2019.1568145, Lang DJ, Wiek A, Bergmann M, Stauffacher M, Martens P, Moll P, Swilling M, Thomas CJ (2012) Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science: practice, principles, and challenges. Supporting data can be found in the annex of the manuscript. Furthermore, platforms like Twitter allow us to give feedback to media companies, so we can set their agenda rather than the other way around. [24] describe how technology creates new forms of risk, whilst scientists are repeatedly drawn to mitigating problems created by science and technology, with Jasanoff [25] arguing that industrial societys capacity for prediction and control was outrun by its ability to create vast technological systems. Whilst all PASE exercises explored in this topical collection had other primary aims, successful science communication was noted in some of the cases. J Innov Entrep 1(1):2. https://doi.org/10.1186/2192-5372-1-2, Bauer MW, Allum N, Miller S (2007) What can we learn from 25 years of PUS survey research? Whilst all the abovementioned factors contribute to ineffectiveness, translation of PASE results into the policy realm remains a central challenge [80], for instance when aiming at inspiring a change in national funding schemes [85]. Register to receive personalised research and resources by email. Eur J Futur Res 8(1):5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40309-020-00164-x, Bauer A, Kastenhofer K (2019) Policy advice in technology assessment: shifting roles, principles and boundaries. Here, another addition may be the issue of capacity building, an often underrated effect of public engagement (PE) activities [34]. Here are some prominent advantages of agenda-setting: Generates awareness: Agenda-setting can be beneficial as it highlights important societal issues by actively discussing them. It is useful to place this discussion within the broader discussion of policy styles. By understanding the benefits and potential pit-falls, a group can capitalize on the virtues of group work and minimize the obstacles that hinder success. First, as briefly mentioned in the introduction, most of these tools are focussed on the implementation stage of the policy process. To some extent, such settings emerge from conditions prescribed by the funding body of the PASE activity, resulting in limited accountability of the dominant groups [83]. Manage cookies/Do not sell my data we use in the preference centre. Thus, it makes sense to account for how this process of agenda-setting and the tools policymakers use to manage agenda-setting against these two broad styles. Routledge, London, Curato N, Dryzek JS, Ercan SA, Hendriks CM, Niemeyer S (2017) Twelve key findings in deliberative democracy research. Whilst these categories may be somewhat arbitrary and other researcher may have assigned different labels, they fulfil their function in allowing for a structured discussion of limits and benefits of the reported PASE activities as well as for drawing generalised conclusions for the field. His message is that the room for members of Congress to champion their own discretionary agenda is limited. Participatory agenda setting inserts public opinion further upstream, at an earlier stage than priority setting. setting the agenda phrase. Futures 43(3):243251. Moreover, the policy styles literature is, at its core, about characterising the way governments approach problem-solving, and the relationship between government and societal actors (see Howlett & Josun, Citation2018; Howlett & Tosun, Citation2021; Richardson et al., Citation1982). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2008.02.005, Ravetz J, Popper R, Miles I (2011) Applications of wild cards and weak signals to the grand challenges & thematic priorities of the European Research Area (ERA Toolkit), van Rij V (2010) Joint horizon scanning: identifying common strategic choices and questions for knowledge. Such dynamics are important to appreciate when conceptualising the way policy instruments might be deployed by those policymakers seeking to manage governmental or institutional policy agendas. The principal mechanisms that give effect to building consensus is acknowledgement and engagement. Additionally, Schroth et al. Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative. In such cases, governments may adopt one or a mix of our above strategies, yet containment of these outside forms of mobilisation may well prove challenging. Sci Eng Ethics 23(1):119. [84] describe how an effective process of scientific and local knowledge sharing took place within the agenda setting activities. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11102780, Woolley JP, McGowan ML, Teare HJA, Coathup V, Fishman JR, Settersten RA, Sterckx S, Kaye J, Juengst ET (2016) Citizen science or scientific citizenship? Eur J Futures Res 9, 8 (2021). Advantages And Disadvantages Of Gatekeeping Theory. Cite this article. Eur J Futur Res 8(1):2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40309-020-0162-3, Rosa AB, Kimpeler S, Schirrmeister E, Warnke P (2021b) Participatory foresight and reflexive innovation: setting policy goals and developing strategies in a bottom-up, mission-oriented, sustainable way. b. [80] scrutinise two recent participatory foresight activities within the framework of reflexive innovation as forums for contextualising alternative futures. oekom verlag, Mnchen, Wynne B (1993) Public uptake of science: a case for institutional reflexivity. Science literacy measures, attitude change and image marketing are the reported viable tools to meet such challenges. Public Manag Rev 17(9):13331357. This section presents results of the qualitative content analysis that examined and clustered factors influencing limits and benefits of the PASE activities that authors report in this topical collection. participant recruitment, facilitator training or transparency of deliberations [37]. the distinction between substantive and procedural policy tools. One notable area of renewed emphasis concerns the agenda-setting phase which scholars claim has been subject to relatively little attention (Howlett, Citation1997; Howlett & Shivakoti, Citation2014). https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scs020, Lakom M, Hlavov R, Machackova H (2019) Open science and the science-society relationship. Balzs et al. There is substantial fluidity for public servants to handle in this process. Health Policy 70(3):281290. Current governance of science, technology and innovation (STI) faces tough challenges to meet demands arising from complex issues such as societal challenges [1,2,3] or the United Nations Sustainable Development GoalsFootnote 1. Register a free Taylor & Francis Online account today to boost your research and gain these benefits: Agenda-setting instruments: means and strategies for the management of policy demands, The Australian National University, Australia, Mayflies and old bulls: Organization persistence in state interest communities, Strong states and weak states: Sectoral policy networks in advanced capitalist economies, Policy capacity: A design perspective. Secondly, public agenda means issues discussed and personally relevant to public. This suggests that government efforts at managing agenda-setting are not contending with a highly skilled cadre of interest groups, but often a gaggle of the temporarily mobilised. Such structures and an uneven distribution of power and resources lead to undone science, a term referring to areas of research that are left unfunded, incomplete, or generally ignored but that social movements or civil society organisations often identify as worthy of more research [56]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-015-0274-4, Regeer B, Bunders J (2009) Knowledge co-creation: interaction between science and society. [79] describe how transdisciplinary co-creation of a research agenda for global change research at national level in Finland led to the inclusion of important societal topics that may otherwise have been neglected by researchers. https://doi.org/10.1108/FS-10-2014-0063, Schuijff M, Dijkstra AM (2020) Practices of responsible research and innovation: a review. Sustain Sci 9(4):483496. Again, there is conceptual work to be done here with respect to what policy styles might look like at different policy phases. Abstract. A transdisciplinary approach to complex societal issues. sustainability and care [14]. For decades, scholars and civil society institutions have called for increased public participation in STI, and political institutions have been taking up the request to integrate engagement activities into their decision-making processes, at least in the form of consultations. The application of health promotion agenda-setting in practice enables a comprehensive, planned, innovative, and sustainable course of action which facilitates prioritization of public health. However, research systematically enumerating the engagement of organised interests across a large number of policy issues in the UK and US demonstrates highly skewed patterns of mobilisation (Baumgartner & Leech, Citation2001; Halpin Citation2011): most issues have very little engagement, with most engagement concentrated on a handful of contentious issues. PLoS ONE 13(3):e0193579. 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