Building on hundreds of thousands of systematically collected and content-coded local policy agenda observations, this book examines – theoretically and empirically - the policy agenda effects of four central aspects of any political system: theinstitutionsthat structure politics; theproblemsconfronting the political system; the occurrence of regular and freeelections; and theactorsnavigating the political system. Developing an explanatory model based on these four factors not only improves our understanding of the determinants of the local policy agenda but also contributes to a further...
Building on hundreds of thousands of systematically collected and content-coded local policy agenda observations, this book examines – theoretically...