Governing future technologies: nanotechnology and the rise of an assessment regime. Core Assumptions. Agenda-setting instruments: means and st . : Procedural Policy Tools in Theory and Practice, The tools approach in contemporary policy sciences, Governmental agenda setting-styles and instruments: a possible typology, Conclusion: Advancing Research on Agenda-Setting Instruments, https://doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2021.1955489, https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.1907653. Specifically, the contrast drawn between an impositional or reactive styles where government electoral mandates and such inform dominant policy agendas and a consensus/anticipatory style where government seeks to consult and gain consent with key stakeholders when setting policy agendas (see Richardson, Gustafsson, & Jordan, Citation1982). Participatory agenda setting inserts public opinion further upstream, at an earlier stage than priority setting. Agenda-setting is the theory that the news media shapes how viewers perceive politics and, ultimately, how they vote. Here, Fritz and Binder [83] describe how the preselection of issues and rules governing the processes has an effect on the inclusion of values and knowledge, and call for increased reflexivity and transparency concerning mechanisms which may have been omitted. Tools that routinise policy demands allow policymakers to acknowledge and engage with a spectrum of actors, and design strategies to meet these demands. They discuss the activities capability to advise on mission-oriented innovation policy-making and their potential in strengthening citizens role in providing strategic input for the European Commissions framework programme for research and innovation that has recently been issued. in environmental policy [62]. Fritz and Binder [83] discuss the dimensions of politics and power inherent to transdisciplinary sustainability research. European Journal of Futures Research This topical collections contributions elaborate factors instrumental in limiting both the uptake of PASE results into the political arena as well as their impact, i.e. The same may be said for the concept of policy styles, where authors have sought to recast discussion from system level styles to styles that might be defined at each stage of the policy process (see e.g. Societal challenges. https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/h2020-section/societal-challenges. Another way to expand on the typology of agenda-setting instruments is to link it to the discussion of high versus low-cost strategies, developed by Cobb and Ross . Minerva. A comprehensive range of skills and resources is needed for the management of co-creation processes [82] which are often open-ended and therefore greatly dependent on the availability of financial resources [79]. Whilst insufficient skills can also be a limiting factor, it has become apparent that successful implementation of PASE activities requires organisers and participants to have separate sets of skills. Whilst all PASE exercises explored in this topical collection had other primary aims, successful science communication was noted in some of the cases. Advantages And Disadvantages Of Gatekeeping Theory. PLoS ONE 13(3):e0193579. Yet, consistent with the recent observations (see Cairney, Citation2018), these are not essentially at loggerheads, but in fact can be two styles that co-exist within the same system, or even the same issue space at different times. Here, they suggest that policymakers . And this leads to pondering over, again, the most important limiting factor: political appreciation of results and a will to implement democratic STI governance, emphasising the importance of both gatekeepers roles at the margins as well as central political actors. Here, they describe the organisers of PASE as non-neutral actors who exercise agency when they translate and transfer issues into respective networks and agendas. Dedicating time and space to the development of interaction is also contingent upon the availability of resources, and influences the development of relationships between groups, especially where competing agendas are supported and receive targeted attention and funding [81]. In relation, Abma [53] examines how the involvement of patients can redress power imbalances in health research agenda setting. The topical collection maps selected international cases in the field, analyses barriers and drivers for participatory agenda setting, thereby develops its conceptual understanding further. There is however limited engagement between scholarship on interest groups and this ongoing discussion around agenda-setting tools. Technol Forecast Soc Chang 115:313326. Focusing on power relations within PASE, Fritz and Binder [83] find that the ascription of roles within processes was shaped by the exercise of discursive power, which, in their cases, led to preserving traditional roles of users and producers of knowledge, then to knowledge co-creation. Since research has also faced repeated requests towards taking on more responsibility for solving societal problems, engagement processes thus help in shaping research. It discusses the process whereby a social problem is identified and then 'thematicised' as a. Action Res 17(4):429450, Miller FA, Patton SJ, Dobrow M, Berta W (2018a) Public involvement in health research systems: a governance framework. For decades, scholars and civil society institutions have called for increased public participation in STI, and political institutions have been taking up the request to integrate engagement activities into their decision-making processes, at least in the form of consultations. More recently, scholars have focussed on identifying conditions that can improve the effectiveness or likely success of policy tools to anticipate and accommodate policy shocks (Bali, Howlett, & Ramesh, Citation2021; Bali & Ramesh, Citation2018; Capano & Woo, Citation2018; Mukherjee, Coban, & Bali, Citation2021). Research funding organisations started to engage with the public to identify and prioritise research topics for investment and to decide between proposals [50]. This paper makes several modest contributions to this evolving field of research on policy tools. Against this background, the participatory turn took place in science, and the governance of science and technology underwent reforms towards more and discursive engagement activities [25]. For policymakers, it is a process to effectively control or manage what issues gain government attention (and thereafter may be subject to government action). There is inadequate theoretical and empirical attention paid to the role of policy tools in other stages of the policymaking especially in managing policy demands (Howlett, Citation2019). Sci Technol Hum Values 43(5):785809. Accessibility Accessibility refers to the ability to obtain information easily. EASST Rev 14(1):1419, Carayannis EG, Campbell DFJ (2010) Triple helix, quadruple helix and quintuple helix and how do knowledge, innovation and the environment relate to each other? To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. For instance, defining a problem in a particular way, and attributing blame to particular agents or processes, is a central mechanism through which policymakers set the scope for a consultation, taskforce or inquiry. the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, except for those four cases1 where public engagement in priority setting takes place, it is rather informal and ad hoc, and not routinely used by research funding organisations because it threatens established research structures, procedures, and scientists cultures and priorities [54, 55]. SAGE Open 4(1):2158244014523791, Abma TA (2018) Dialogue and deliberation: new approaches to including patients in setting health and healthcare research agendas. Secondly, public agenda means issues discussed and personally relevant to public. Do these vary across policy sectors? Differentiating between instrumental, structural, and discursive power, the authors uncover how funding bodies, researchers, and practitioners exert power over participatory processes, and how this limits participation in STI governance. Policy Stream: https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547015588601, Wang X (2015) Revisiting Upstream Public Engagement: from a Habermasian Perspective. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2019.1568145, Lang DJ, Wiek A, Bergmann M, Stauffacher M, Martens P, Moll P, Swilling M, Thomas CJ (2012) Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science: practice, principles, and challenges. Klagenfurt, Hsieh H-F, Shannon SE (2005) Three approaches to qualitative content analysis. These preliminary categories were revisited several times during the course of analysis and revised if necessary to allow clustering with other quotes. The first is that the media filters and shapes what we see rather than just reflecting stories to the audience. These are the boundaries in between which researchers later navigate when proposing their intended research. public relations/comms strategies. Niklas Gudowsky. agenda-setting by focussing on the use of agenda-setting models and by applying it to physical education and school sport and the policy agenda of the national government. Thus, a concrete understanding of the means or various techniques by which governments go about managing this agenda-setting processg is no doubt a useful development of the policy instruments literature. Here are some prominent advantages of agenda-setting: Generates awareness: Agenda-setting can be beneficial as it highlights important societal issues by actively discussing them. This has implications as governments and government agencies have differing capabilities to deploy these resources (see e.g. Sturgis and Allum [27] summarise that, on the one hand, perception of risk towards new technologies is strongly influenced by norms and values which do not primarily depend on peoples scientific understanding. The following section presents the typology of agenda-setting styles and instruments and provides examples of different types of tools used to manage policy demands. Although the agenda should be negotiated with . [79] add that simultaneous reproduction of a PASE setting in various localities, supported by digital conflation, would have ensured better inclusiveness. Resp Innov:2750. the use of sunset clauses vis--vis statutory reviews) and has implications on how governments elect to manage policy demands. The rest of the paper is organised as follows. https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2020-01/51134-2020-01-historicalbudgetdata.xlsx. University of Westminster, London, Grunwald A (2019) The inherently democratic nature of technology assessment. That is, the governments (often coercive) use of political legitimacy to advance preferred agendas while dismissing the need for public consultation or engagement. Advantages: There are six advantages to working in a group: 1. First, it offers one possible way to typologise agenda-setting instruments deployed by government to manage external demands (we do not attempt to catalogue the instruments or strategies that groups might use to shape the agenda, or to avoid or evade these governmental tools). The following section presents an analysis of their content with regard to limits and benefits of participatory agenda setting processes and discusses the results in relation to the literature. Georghiou L, Cassingena Harper J (2011) From priority-setting to articulation of demand: foresight for research and innovation policy and strategy. Curato et al. The theory is important in agenda setting because of the. J Res Innov 6(2):119142. [79] describe how transdisciplinary co-creation of a research agenda for global change research at national level in Finland led to the inclusion of important societal topics that may otherwise have been neglected by researchers. RRI emerged from preceding and ongoing developments in technology assessment, anticipatory governance or upstream engagement (Owen, [7]). The application of health promotion agenda-setting in practice enables a comprehensive, planned, innovative, and sustainable course of action which facilitates prioritization of public health. 176-87. c. Soc Sci Med 151:215224. For instance, research has shown that a small minority of all government consultations attract the majority of the group responses, with most being replied to by fewer than 10 actors (Baumgartner & Leech, Citation2001; Halpin, Citation2011). It is a reasonable assumption to make that tools to manage policy demands vary in their complexity (e.g. Here, mutual learning is built on a common understanding of an issue and a prerequisite for meaningful deliberations in participatory agenda setting [53]. Today, health research priority setting represents a maturing field, with patients mainly being involved most often at the pre-preparation stage to identify high-level priorities in health ecosystem priority setting, and at the preparation phase for health research [39]. The Agenda Setting Theory discusses how the mass media gives prominence to issues in our society. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.07.017, Knnla T, Haegeman K (2012) Embedding foresight in transnational research programming. Springer Nature. These are discussed in relation to the body of literature presented in the introduction. Health Res Policy Syst 16(1):79. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-018-0352-7, Mitton C, Smith N, Peacock S, Evoy B, Abelson J (2009) Public participation in health care priority setting: a scoping review. The second relates to the focus of this special issue, i.e. These diverse styles are, at heart, about the origin or impulse for what governments will consider. Public Underst Sci 26(6):634649. Before there is space to consider a proactive or even reforming agenda, the space is easily populated by existing, and recurring, items. For instance, Halpin (Citation2002) notes, often after imposing an agenda, government swiftly moves to a set of instruments that routinise a (revised) community around the new policy settings. 331-344, Anticipating and designing for policy effectiveness, Unpacking policy portfolios: Primary and secondary aspects of tool use in policy mixes, Interest niches and policy bandwagons: Patterns of interest group involvement in national politics, Reconsidering policy feedback: How policies affect politics, Interest Group Strategies: Navigating Between Privileged Access and Strategies of Pressure. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12213, Schlvinck A-FM, Pittens CACM, Broerse JEW (2020) Patient involvement in agenda-setting processes in health research policy: a boundary work perspective. 1: CREATE A COMPLETE LIST OF CONCERNS. We know that events may well propel an issue onto the agenda, and, again, we can expect instruments to be deployed to bring these into a manageable mode. Mukherjee et al., Citation2021), is to consider the types of policy mixes deployed in advancing strategies presented in Table 1. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12228, Carayannis EG, Barth TD, Campbell DFJ (2012) The Quintuple Helix innovation model: global warming as a challenge and driver for innovation. (2017). Boden M, Johnston R, Scapolo F (2012) The role of FTA in responding to grand challenges: a new approach for STI policy? https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.27.2.53, van Veen S, Bunders J, Regeer B (2013) Mutual learning for knowledge co-creation about disability inclusive development: experiences with a community of practice. Knowl Manag Dev J 9(2):105124, Voorberg WH, Bekkers VJJM, Tummers LG (2014) A systematic review of co-creation and co-production: embarking on the social innovation journey. Furthermore, a change of science governance itself is carried out by successfully implementing PASE activities or even by carrying out experiments towards that goal. Res Policy 42(9):15681580. As is well observed in the literature, there is a status quo bias to policy making, which means that groups seeking to reproduce existing advantages typically have an easier time than challengers (Baumgartner, Berry, Hojnacki, Kimball, & Leech, Citation2009). Sci Eng Ethics 26(3):17091741. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662506071287, Wynne B (1996) In: Lash S, Szerszynski B, Wynne B (eds) May the sheep safely graze? Instead, a straightforward fourth set of instruments designed to impose an agenda can be considered. Sci Public Policy 46(5):702709. From a government perspective, these tools provide a way to build consensus as to what the policy problem is, and the range of solutions that seem credible. Combining these dimensions can become a transformative ingredient of responsibilisation of actors and institutions in R&I systems [15]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.01.018, ODonnell M, Entwistle V (2004) Consumer involvement in decisions about what health-related research is funded. Providing these types of knowledge has long been reserved for a small and privileged group of actors. What would this look like for policymakers deploying sets of agenda-setting instruments in specific policy contexts? An empirical analysis of power in transdisciplinary sustainability research. Berlin Heidelberg Springer-Verlag, pp 8798, Rosa A, Gudowsky N, Warnke P (2018) But do they deliver? https://doi.org/10.1007/s40309-016-0090-4, Jacobi A, Klver L, Rask M (2010) Relevant research in a knowledge democracy: citizens participation in defining research agendas for Europe. While Agenda setting . Again, there is conceptual work to be done here with respect to what policy styles might look like at different policy phases. Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, Matschoss K, Pietil M, Rask M, Suni T (2020) Co-creating transdisciplinary global change research agendas in Finland. It might be fair to say that the three first three types of tools outlined in Table 1 apply a policy style more closely associated with the logic of negotiation (Jordan & Richardson, Citation1982), whereby groups and policymakers exchange access for input against the backdrop of receiving some of what they want much of the time. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2010.10.002, Bogner A (2011) The paradox of participation experiments. Health Expect 18(6):24492464. This suggests that government efforts at managing agenda-setting are not contending with a highly skilled cadre of interest groups, but often a gaggle of the temporarily mobilised. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025557512320, Gibbons M, Limoges C, Nowotny H, Schwartzman S, Scott P, Trow M (1994) The new production of knowledge: the dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies. tations of group work. Agenda setting uses the theory of accessibility when deciding what stories to run, how often to run them, and where to place them. We know that organised interests or interest groups spend some considerable time deciding what they would see as desirable policy priorities and outcomes. 5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG. Daedalus 146(3):2838. Even though RRI is shifting its concept, its main dimensions inclusion, anticipation, responsiveness and reflexivity are established, with the addition of two emerging dimensions, i.e. From this stand point, in part, it might be conceived of as managing what Cobb and Ross (Citation1997, p. 25) refer to as agenda conflict: the situation where initiators seek to have a new issue on the agenda while others wish to keep the same issue off the agenda (either because they oppose it, or because it would dislodge their own issue from the agenda). These are all consistent with an anticipatory and consensus based governmental agenda-setting style. 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Criticism towards the deficit model followed several lines of arguments, for instance that it fails to recognise the importance of local knowledge-in-context [23], or the flawed general assumption that because citizens show mistrust in science, they are deficient and therefore not to be trusted when asked about issues related to science and technology. Eur J Futur Res 8(1):10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40309-020-00169-6, Schroth F, Glatte H, Kaiser S, Heidingsfelder M (2020) Participatory agenda setting as a process of people, ambassadors and translation: a case study of participatory agenda setting in rural areas. Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Mediators facilitated discussions between scientists, policymakers, and the public, supported by the co-creation of boundary objects such as data-driven models, to stimulate complex systems thinking in order to imagine alternative futures. Proposed typology of agenda-setting instruments. 2023 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. This paper aims to fill this gap by identifying different types of agenda-setting tools deployed by government which are used to shape engagement from organised interests. That is, the use of largely treasure resources to generate demand across stakeholders for preferred policy options. So, in this view, tools such as these are a curse to government, bogging it down in recurring issues and not allowing it space for new ideas. Science and Public Policy, Pratt B, Merritt M, Hyder AA (2016) Towards deep inclusion for equity-oriented health research priority-setting: a working model. Public Underst Sci 2(4):321337. Eur J Futur Res, Gudowsky N, Sotoudeh M, Bechtold U, Peissl W (2017) Contributing to an European imaginary of democratic education by engaging multiple actors in shaping responsible research agendas. Health research priority setting is arguably required by the judiciary when state interests are at stake, for example in the promotion of health equity [49]. In this respect, the mechanisms that underpin each of the four strategies presented offer a starting point for more rigorous investigations in policy tools. Foresight 18(3):276296. Of course, this typology is not perfect. Since health research has been, until today, the most prominent scientific field that applies participatory agenda setting, taking a closer look at the abovementioned arguments is essential. As far back as 1922 the newspaper columnist Walter Lippman was concerned that the media had the power to present images to the public. PLoS Biol 12(1):e1001761. Methods and methodologies continue to evolve, not only driven by countless activities and actors on several levels, from local to global, but also topic-wise from single technologies to engaging with questions of macro-level governance. Here, the initial positioning and rationality of participatory agenda setting activities within STI governance often only allows for a limitedif not marginalinfluence on policy-making [74]. Public Manag Rev 17(9):13331357. Furthermore, the transference of a dominant actors power onto the process may lead to reproduction of an already dominant societal discourse or one that is politically desirable. citizen juries versus task forces considering submissions), and design work required (Bali, Capano, & Ramesh, Citation2019). Cookies policy. the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Within the last decade, however, the quadruple helix, adding the public as an additional factor, has gained importance [19, 20] and is being further refined by accepting the established socio-ecological necessities of the twenty-first century by adding natural environments as major driver for knowledge production and innovation [21]. Comp Eur Politics 14(1):107124, Selin C, Rawlings KC, de Ridder-Vignone K, Sadowski J, Altamirano Allende C, Gano G, Davies SR, Guston DH (2016) Experiments in engagement: designing public engagement with science and technology for capacity building. Moving engagement in research and development further upstream makes early interventions and social shaping of technologies and innovation possible. Stilgoe et al. In fact, most are, at best, intermittent participants in public policy between fulfilling other tasks (such as service delivery). Policy tools or instruments a set of techniques by which governmental authorities wield power in attempting to support and effect change (Vedung, Citation1997) are central to the policy sciences. There are four global, highly structured patient and public engagement planning activities: the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships (UK), Dialogue Method (Netherlands), Global Evidence Mapping (Australia), and the Deep Inclusion Method/CHoosing All Together (US) [39]. Regardless of the synchronicity with political cycles, the dominant mechanism this family of instruments relies on to impose policy demands is legitimation. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scs020, Lakom M, Hlavov R, Machackova H (2019) Open science and the science-society relationship. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2013.05.008, Abels G, Bora A (2016) Ethics and public participation in technology assessment, Grunwald A (2018) Technology assessment in practice and theory.
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