Exhibit 1225 ยท Peer-reviewed article
Focusing Events, Mobilization, and Agenda Setting
most focusing events change the dominant issues on the agenda in a policy domain, they can lead to interest group mobilization, and groups often actively seek to expand or contain issues after a focusing event.
Birkland examines how focusing events such as natural disasters and industrial accidents change policy agendas and mobilize interest groups. He says agenda setting and group politics vary with the type of event and the structure of the policy community.
- Source
- Thomas A. Birkland, Journal of Public Policy 18(1):53-74
- Date
- January 1998
- Quoted from
- Abstract (Cambridge University Press record and RePEc/IDEAS record)
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X98000038
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Only the abstract was read; the article body is behind a paywall. The 1997 book After Disaster was not read.