Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada

Stuart Soroka is assistant professor of politicalscience at McGill University.

• Tables and FiguresAcknowledgments 1 Introduction2 Issues and Issue Types3 The Media Agenda4 The Public Agenda5 The Policy Agenda6 Modelling Agenda-Setting7 Expanding the Models8 Final Conclusions AppendicesA Time Series Methods and Agenda-SettingB The Media AgendaC The Public AgendaD The Policy AgendaE Real-World Indicators ReferencesIndex

In the vast literature on agenda setting, this book is destined to become one of the top five publications. It will be a "must read" for anyone involved in this line of research, or for general readers interested in the formation of public opinion and public policy. - Maxwell McCombs, Jesse H. Jones Centennial Chair in Communication, University of Texas at Austin [T]his concise and well-written book could certainly prove useful to scholars interested in agenda-setting, public opinion and policy studies ... this book may convince even the most skeptical students of politics to take agenda-setting seriously. Rating: ***** - Daniel Béland, University of Calgary (Political Studies Review, 1:3) Soroka has produced by far the most detailed and sophisticated study to date of Canadian agenda setting… his clear and concise discussion of the problematics and methods of studying agenda-setting has provided a significant contribution to the literature on the subject. Soroka has produced by far the most detailed and sophisticated study to date of Canadian agenda setting ... his clear and concise discussion of the problematics and methods of studying agenda-setting has provided a significant contribution to the literature on the subject. - Michael Howlett, Professor of Political Science, Simon Fraser University (Political Communication, 20, 343-344, 2003)