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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). Eur J Futur Res 8(1):5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40309-020-00164-x, Bauer A, Kastenhofer K (2019) Policy advice in technology assessment: shifting roles, principles and boundaries. NanoEthics 10(1):6374. Lash et al. This paper makes several modest contributions to this evolving field of research on policy tools. Despite these advances there are two major gaps in the literature. Science literacy measures, attitude change and image marketing are the reported viable tools to meet such challenges. Thus, the principal mechanism relied on to generate policy demands is mobilisation. The framing is based on the idea of how media base an event or an issue within a particular field of meaning which plays an important role in people's decision making . Until recently, researchers on agenda-setting and Internet media have for the most part defined for Three recent major events in which so-called alternative purposes of study Internet media as websites, bulletin sources were influential include the coverage of boards or online discussion groups. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-020-00211-7, Peter M, Diektter T, Kremer K (2019) Participant outcomes of biodiversity citizen science projects: a systematic literature review. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732305276687, Strauss A, Corbin JM (1990) Basics of qualitative research: grounded theory procedures and techniques. Hinrichs and Johnston [81] assess two PASE exercises for future-oriented education and health governance taking place within a specifically designed workshop space (the decision theatre), aimed at fostering informed decision-making. Balzs et al. Gastil [40] highlights the need for analysing public deliberation methods, particularly in relation to the different points of entry within the policymaking system. Knowledge Democracy. Abma TA, Pittens CACM, Visse M, Elberse JE, Broerse JEW (2015) Patient involvement in research programming and implementation. https://doi.org/10.1108/FS-10-2014-0063, Schuijff M, Dijkstra AM (2020) Practices of responsible research and innovation: a review. There are three broad avenues where this typology could be taken further. As Richardson (Citation2018) has recently re-stated, governments do not always ask nicely and seek consensus for change, they may simply impose preferred options. PASE activities show the possibility of harnessing diversity by combining a multiplicity of views emerging from a diverse group of participants [79] whilst negotiating knowledge between science, policy, and the public. [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. (PDF) Agenda Setting Theory - ResearchGate Combining these dimensions can become a transformative ingredient of responsibilisation of actors and institutions in R&I systems [15]. Proposed typology of agenda-setting instruments. [24] describe how technology creates new forms of risk, whilst scientists are repeatedly drawn to mitigating problems created by science and technology, with Jasanoff [25] arguing that industrial societys capacity for prediction and control was outrun by its ability to create vast technological systems. 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). When distributed ahead of the meeting, the agenda lets participants plan ahead in preparing materials or ideas on topics. Eur J Futures Res 9, 8 (2021). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429442643, Amanatidou E, Butter M, Carabias V, Konnola T, Leis M, Saritas O, Schaper-Rinkel P, van Rij V (2012) On concepts and methods in horizon scanning: lessons from initiating policy dialogues on emerging issues. First, the diverse contributions are summarised to provide readers with an overview. Agenda-setting is a vital element of the study of public policy. The principal mechanisms that give effect to building consensus is acknowledgement and engagement. When tackling complex problems, expertise in research integration and implementation is particularly important, yet currently exists in rather fragmented approaches such as inter- and transdisciplinary research, systems thinking or action research [4]. The larger point made in Table 1 is that tools used to manage policy demands primarily rely on one of these four types of resources for their effectiveness. [34] who discuss intra-personal relations in public engagement and conclude that building such networks contributes to the notion of capacity building, and should be seen as a major effect. This introduction builds upon the call for papers for this topical collection written by the author: https://eujournalfuturesresearch.springeropen.com/pase. Contextualisation of research by fostering systems thinking is described as another benefit of PASE activities. The agenda-setting influence of the news media is not limited to this initial step of focusing public attention on a particular topic. 2023 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. One important facet of managing agenda-setting is dealing with policy demands from organised interests. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662515620970, Lee CW (2014) Do-it-yourself democracy: the rise of the public engagement industry. Science and Public Policy, Pratt B, Merritt M, Hyder AA (2016) Towards deep inclusion for equity-oriented health research priority-setting: a working model. Comparing the last four European science policy framework programmes with regard to the science-society relationship, Conceio et al.