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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Young, Oran R

Titel

Agenda Formation: The Finnish Initiative and the Norwegian Initiative

Ist Teil von

• Creating Regimes, 2018, p.52-85

Ort / Verlag

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

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• As William Riker rightly observes in introducing an important collection of essays on agenda formation, “Agendas foreshadow outcomes: the shape of the agenda influences the choices made from it. Today we are intensely aware of this fact, but our knowledge about it is relatively new.”¹ Despite growing interest in the study of agenda formation, the subject is difficult to address effectively within the confines of mainstream models of collective choice. These models, exemplified by game-theoretic analyses of bargaining and microeconomic analyses of competitive equilibrium, typically ignore agenda formation by positing actors who face clear-cut alternatives and possess well-defined utility functions