1st Edition
The Politics of Agenda Setting The Car and the Shaping of Public Policy
By Nick Robinson
Copyright 2000
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2000. A timely look at the politics of agenda setting in relation to the car, under both the Conservative and Labour governments since the late 1980s.
Contents: Introduction; Agenda setting: a review of the literature; History: from the un-politics to the new politics of transport; Problem centered models of agenda setting; Actor centered models of agenda setting; The European Union and national transport policy; Local authorities and the transport agenda under Major: the qualified rise of power dependency in central-local relations; Conclusion; Postscript: new labour and the politics of transport; Bibliography.
’...an important contribution to our understanding of transport politics and policy.’ Professor Wyn Grant, University of Warwick, UK