When a Stone Breaks the Surface: The Mechanism of Focusing Events in Triggering Response-Oriented Agenda Setting
Journal: Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
Year: 2026

During the economic and social growth transition, the Chinese government must promptly address and resolve various significant and unexpected social challenges, prioritizing social matters and establishing a response-oriented agenda-setting model. A qualitative comparative analysis method was employed within the response-oriented agenda-setting triggering framework, incorporating aspects of advocacy coalition theory. This analysis utilized 45 focusing events from 2018 to 2023 to delineate four r