Publication
Title
How preferences, information and institutions interactively drive agenda-setting : questions in the Belgian parliament, 1993-2000
Author
Abstract
In this article an integrated framework of agenda-setting is proposed that incorporates the two main accounts of agenda-setting: the information-processing approach by Comparative Agenda Project scholars and the preference-centred account advanced by Comparative Manifestoes Project scholars. The study claims that attention allocation is determined at the same time by preferences, information and institutions, and that attention allocation is affected by the interactions between these three factors. An empirical test is conducted that draws upon a dataset of parliamentary questions/interpellations in Belgium in the period 19932000. It is found that attention in parliament is indeed driven by preceding party manifestos (preferences), by available information (media coverage) and by institutional position (government or opposition party). The evidence establishes that agenda-setting is also affected by the interactions between preferences, information and institutions. Actors, given their preferences, treat information in a biased fashion, and institutions moderate information's role.
Language
English
Source (journal)
European journal of political research / European Consortium for Political Research [Colchester] - Amsterdam, 1973, currens
Publication
Amsterdam : Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company , 2013
ISSN
0304-4130 [print]
1475-6765 [online]
DOI
10.1111/J.1475-6765.2012.02070.X
Volume/pages
52 :3 (2013) , p. 390-418
ISI
000316964900005
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Research group
Project info
Information-processing by individual political actors. The determinants of exposure, attention and action in a comparative perspective (INFOPOL).
Publication type
Subject
Law 
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Identifier
Creation 07.06.2013
Last edited 09.10.2023
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