Boden M, Johnston R, Scapolo F (2012) The role of FTA in responding to grand challenges: a new approach for STI policy? Work has shown how the absence of policy publics creates difficulties for policymakers in sustaining a clear or coherent policy agenda in a sector (Jordan & Halpin, Citation2006; May, Jones, Beem, NeffSharum, & Poague, Citation2005). in the natural sciences, may struggle more to see such benefits [57], especially when public engagement requires comprehensive information about the field prior to the involvement, e.g. Referring to the concept of undone science [56], the authors show that several research questions emerged during the PASE, which are largely ignored by health research. For instance, researchers may be more inclined to listen to outsiders in terms of agenda setting, when the issues at stake directly concern those outsiders, for instance when studying futures, medical treatments, or political issues. Sci Public Policy 39(2):191207. Once we recognise that government is under pressure from external interests when setting its agenda, the question arises as to how they might seek to manage it? Comparing the last four European science policy framework programmes with regard to the science-society relationship, Conceio et al. Complex scientific issues were made accessible through the help of speculative objects and narrative futures framed towards the challenges faced by people in rural areas [82]. The applied exploratory study with inductive category development [76] allowed categories to emerge from the data. Continuity of the process and face-to-face participation were procedural aspects identified to support co-creation: whilst a series of workshops provided a sense of stability for participants, who were thus able to build sequential lines of arguments [81], ongoing network activities over several years provided the necessary trust for sharing sensible data and practices which were then copied, adapted, and combined [84]. Extending the policy instruments approach to agenda-setting is a worthy endeavour, which creates additional opportunities for developing systematic insights into the way government goes about managing demands to recognise issues as public, and thereafter to give them attention. Despite these advances there are two major gaps in the literature. Eur J Futur Res 4(1). Multiple stream theory, however, gives much more attention to multiple determinants of policy agenda, including factors such as cost, interest group power, and the power of political parties and actors. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. 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). PLoS ONE 13(3):e0193579. In discussing illustrative examples of policy tools used to manage demands, following Capano and Howlett (Citation2019), we also briefly comment on the mechanisms that underpin these four strategies. [48] provide the following review: Involving patients at an early stage of research policy increases the chances of successful implementation of innovations, which increases quality and legitimacy of research policies (the democracy argument); patients require valuable experiential knowledge when dealing with their condition and its consequences that complements scientific and biomedical knowledge (the functional (substantial) argument); they have the moral right to engage in decision-making on research policy since they are affected by it (the normative argument). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2010.10.002, Bogner A (2011) The paradox of participation experiments. Health Policy 70(3):281290. This deficit model has been much critiqued and resulted in the third paradigm of a rather equal science and society relation. California Privacy Statement, 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]. These are all consistent with an anticipatory and consensus based governmental agenda-setting style. After the value of experiential knowledge gained wider recognition around the turn of the millennium, for instance patient participation for health research, research priority setting became one focus within growing field of engagement activities for governing health systems, and included, amongst others, the setting and monitoring of ethical standards. This concentration on agenda-setting instruments and styles holds particular salience for interest groups scholars, not least because the literature typically considers organized interests as one of the key agents in initiating policy demands. 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. in form of lobbyism) as agenda setting is in most cases partly, or mainly, a political process. We know that organised interests or interest groups spend some considerable time deciding what they would see as desirable policy priorities and outcomes. 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. Recent empirical evidence from comparing citizen-driven STI agenda setting with expert-based foresight studies strengthens this claim [73, 74]. Recent research in this vein has focused not only on the choice of individual tools (see e.g. In general, there are three main arguments that are presented the most when examining why public participation is necessary for political decision-making [33]. A less cynical view would argue that this early exchange between policymakers and organised interests provides a foundation for more optimal outcomes in latter stages of the policy process such as implementation. Here, another addition may be the issue of capacity building, an often underrated effect of public engagement (PE) activities [34]. BMC Med Ethics 17(1):33. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-016-0117-1, Turb A, Barba J, Pelacho M, Mugdal S, Robinson LD, Serrano-Sanz F, Sanz F, Tsinaraki C, Rubio J-M, Schade S (2019) Understanding the citizen science landscape for European environmental policy: an assessment and recommendations. https://doi.org/10.4018/jsesd.2010010105, Miller K, McAdam R, McAdam M (2018b) A systematic literature review of university technology transfer from a quadruple helix perspective: toward a research agenda. 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? The two most basic assumptions of agenda setting are: (1) the press and the media do not reflect reality; they filter and shape it; (2) media concentration on a few issues and subjects leads the public to perceive those issues as more important than other issues (Agenda Setting Theory, 2012). Technol Forecast Soc Chang 75(4):483495. Regularise: In his work on agenda-setting in the US Congress, Walker (Citation1977) noted that periodically recurring agenda items such as budget appropriations, small amendments to Acts, mandated statutory reviews comprise the majority of what members of Congress attend to. 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. Conveying the argument of favouring public engagement in agenda-setting, participation (a) helps to democratise the research arena dominated by an elite, making research funding decisions more transparent; (b) contributes to better understand societal impact of and a need towards science and technology, thus producing better decisions whilst increasing public trust in science; and (c) fulfils the moral obligation of involving the public into guiding decisions of distributing tax-money for research and innovation which may concern public and individual lives. As Richardson (Citation2018) has recently re-stated, governments do not always ask nicely and seek consensus for change, they may simply impose preferred options. Yet, imposition is often swiftly followed up by efforts at (re)building policy communities anew (Halpin, Citation2002). [82] reflect on PASE organisers non-neutrality in exercising agency when they are translating and transferring issues into respective networks and agendas. Technology assessment over the last decades [8, 9, 68]. SAGE Open 4(1):2158244014523791, Abma TA (2018) Dialogue and deliberation: new approaches to including patients in setting health and healthcare research agendas. Analyzing documents incorporates coding content into themes similar to how focus group or interview transcripts are analyzed (Bowen,2009). https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662506071287, Wynne B (1996) In: Lash S, Szerszynski B, Wynne B (eds) May the sheep safely graze? One important facet of managing agenda-setting is dealing with policy demands from organised interests. The authors use ethnographic methods to analyse the learning and empowerment processes of a participatory research network consisting of farmers, scientists, public officials and managers of private companies who are concerned with organic rice production in Italy. Increasing sciences responsiveness to society is a main pillar of RRI (Stilgoe, [91]) and a primary aim of most PASE activities since responsiveness can be reached, in terms of upstream engagement, by translating societal needs and values into research agendas [43, 71]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001761, Grunwald A, Hocke P (2010) In: Kaiser M, Kurath M, Maasen S, Rehmann-Sutter C (eds) The risk debate on nanoparticles: contribution to a normalisation of the science/society relationship? The process involves a variety of interests is seen as the strengths of the policy cycle because the decisions are more rational. 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. Public Manag Rev 17(9):13331357. Definition of setting the agenda in the Idioms Dictionary. [79] add that simultaneous reproduction of a PASE setting in various localities, supported by digital conflation, would have ensured better inclusiveness. 2023 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. 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. Substantive tools are understood to alter how goods and services are produced, consumed or distributed. Moving engagement in research and development further upstream makes early interventions and social shaping of technologies and innovation possible. In this respect, the mechanisms that underpin each of the four strategies presented offer a starting point for more rigorous investigations in policy tools. They say Each public arena has a characteristic rhythm of organizational life that influences the timing of its interactions with social problems, thus affecting [issue] selection (ibid). Pagliarino et al. Of course, this typology is not perfect. 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 (Citation1997). Schroth et al. Sci Public Policy 37(1):718, Burget M, Bardone E, Pedaste M (2017) Definitions and conceptual dimensions of responsible research and innovation: a literature review. 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). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 157177, Durn JM, Pirtle Z (2020) Epistemic standards for participatory technology assessment: suggestions based upon well-ordered science. Cookies policy. However, network building can be a side-effect as well. the organisers agency or normativity, unreflected power relations within or insufficient inclusiveness of the process, a lack of skills and resources as well as inadequate quality of the results. Springer Nature. Whilst these categories may be somewhat arbitrary and other researcher may have assigned different labels, they fulfil their function in allowing for a structured discussion of limits and benefits of the reported PASE activities as well as for drawing generalised conclusions for the field. Current governance of science, technology and innovation (STI) faces tough challenges to meet demands arising from complex issues such as societal challenges or targets, e.g. Society 56(3):246255. Other communication theories that can also gain benefit from gatekeeping includes framing (Breed, 1955) etc. c. 2. Participatory technology assessment (pTA) specifically aimed at strengthening inclusive deliberation on emerging technologies and STI agendas [8, 9], whilst foresight, and here especially horizon scanning activities with participatory elements, focussed early on the potential of stakeholder engagement for on identifying new topics for STI governance [10,11,12,13]. Soc Sci Med 151:215224. The second, consistent with recent design studies that suggest that governments have come to rely on a mix or portfolio of policy tools rather than single instruments (see e.g. Curato et al. [85] state that a better alignment with societal values and demands is essential to gaining more democratic legitimacy, beyond expert- or technology-driven processes. The terms research priority setting and research agenda setting are often used interchangeably [47]. Nevertheless, Smith [52] presents evidence indicating that voting decisions were most influenced by potential benefits of the planned research to society. The first is to consider arena-based agenda-setting instruments - contrasting those in the administrative, legislative, and public arenas. In their pilot study, the authors describe how a large variety of participants, including actors outside of academia or research funding, engaged in a series of events. Do governments pursue multiple strategies simultaneously? Abma TA, Pittens CACM, Visse M, Elberse JE, Broerse JEW (2015) Patient involvement in research programming and implementation. Permission is granted subject to the terms of the License under which the work was published. 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. Tools that routinise policy demands allow policymakers to acknowledge and engage with a spectrum of actors, and design strategies to meet these demands. Such dynamics are important to appreciate when conceptualising the way policy instruments might be deployed by those policymakers seeking to manage governmental or institutional policy agendas. [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. As TA is inherently democratic, it has actively promoted public engagement in science and technology, relying not only on functional arguments of inclusion in modern democracy, but also on a normative one such as the empowerment of citizens and stakeholders, and its value in itself [69]. See-through science: why public engagement needs to move upstream. 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. [85] analyse data from a participatory research agenda setting process for green care services which employ nature in a therapeutic context to offer well-being and health-promoting activities. 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. Whilst PEs ability to enhance reflexivity is often discussed with a focus on science and scientists [92], these finding also show the important effect of enhancing reflexivity within participants, i.e. Open research agenda setting., Gudowsky N, Peissl W (2016) Human centred science and technologytransdisciplinary foresight and co-creation as tools for active needs-based innovation governance. Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative. First, as briefly mentioned in the introduction, most of these tools are focussed on the implementation stage of the policy process. Abels and Bora [8] for instance conclude that regarding the high potentials of conflict in ethical debates [] participatory TA is an unpredictable tool with limited possibilities. [85] describe how especially the creation of an open and informal platform supported the bridging of the science-society gap. Conceio CP, vila P, Coelho AR, Costa AF (2019) European action plans for sciencesociety relations: changing buzzwords, changing the agenda. It is argued that they might be understood as falling into types that seek to routinise demands (such as consultations and stakeholder events), regularise demands (such as legislative sunset clauses and scheduled reviews), and generate demands (such as funding policy publics). While agendas can be useful for organizing and managing discussions and decision-making processes, they also have several disadvantages that can negatively impact the effectiveness of the meeting or gathering. 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. When distributed ahead of the meeting, the agenda lets participants plan ahead in preparing materials or ideas on topics. SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp 4483, Lash S, Beck U, Giddens A (1994) Reflexive modernization: politics, tradition and aesthetics in the modern social order. There are three broad avenues where this typology could be taken further. 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. Eur J Futur Res 8(1):7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40309-020-00166-9, Balzs B, Horvth J, Pataki G (2020) Science-society dialogue from the start: participatory research agenda-setting by Science Cafs. Maxwell McCombs and Donald L. Shaw, 'The Agenda-setting Function of the Media'. Agenda-setting is the theory that the news media shapes how viewers perceive politics and, ultimately, how they vote. https://doi.org/10.3152/147154306781778740, Rask M (2013) The tragedy of citizen deliberation two cases of participatory technology assessment. The agenda setting theory is both advantageous and disadvantageous. While comparativists see the former as associated with pluralist and the latter corporatist systems (see Lijphart, Citation1999), others have argued that both styles of policymaking operate in all liberal democratic countries irrespective of system-level or institutional differences (Atkinson & Coleman, Citation1989; Cairney, Citation2018). Sage, London, Sturgis P, Allum N (2004) Science in society: re-evaluating the deficit model of public attitudes. [80] support this and go further by stating that this adaptation of issues through translation, comparison, categorisation, and combination should be subject to close scrutiny, especially where different actor groups such as laypeople and experts are concerned. Here, Schroth et al. These diverse styles are, at heart, about the origin or impulse for what governments will consider. [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. 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). It is regarded as the extension of agenda setting theory which prioritize an issue and makes the audience think about its effects. Action Res 17(4):429450, Miller FA, Patton SJ, Dobrow M, Berta W (2018a) Public involvement in health research systems: a governance framework. Technol Forecast Soc Chang 139:3241. Berlin Heidelberg Springer-Verlag, pp 8798, Rosa A, Gudowsky N, Warnke P (2018) But do they deliver? Sci Eng Ethics 26(2):533574. This section shortly summarises the diverse contributions to the topical collection. Eur J Futur Res 2(1), Joss S, Bellucci S (2002) Participatory technology assessment European perspectives. The changing British policy style: From governance to government? framing research agendas. Bali, Howlett and Ramesh., Citation2021). What determines this choice? Diversifying stakeholder dialogues and enabling citizens to demonstrate greater agency enhances reflexive capacities [80]. The rest of the paper is organised as follows. The authors describe the rise of agroecology as innovative paradigm in agriculture, which relies on participatory research and sustainability principles. In brief, the study of agenda setting concerns the ranking of government priorities. 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662515620970, Lee CW (2014) Do-it-yourself democracy: the rise of the public engagement industry. Yet, it is equally applicable, we argue, to agenda-setting. Regardless of the synchronicity with political cycles, the dominant mechanism this family of instruments relies on to impose policy demands is legitimation. Science and Public Policy, Pratt B, Merritt M, Hyder AA (2016) Towards deep inclusion for equity-oriented health research priority-setting: a working model. 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. To learn about our use of cookies and how you can manage your cookie settings, please see our Cookie Policy. Three streams Problem stream: Represents information and events that may unchain a series of events related to placing or eliminating an issue from the agenda. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732305276687, Strauss A, Corbin JM (1990) Basics of qualitative research: grounded theory procedures and techniques. The topical collection maps selected international cases in the field, analyses barriers and drivers for participatory agenda setting, thereby develops its conceptual understanding further. 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