CENTER FOR NURSING RESEARCH: A CASE STUDY IN AGENDA-SETTING.
Contributors: St. Louis University.
Published: 1993
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Political Science, General.; Political Science, Public Administration.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: A non-experimental, retrospective case study was done to determine the process utilized to attain formal agenda status of the National Center for Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health. The research was carried out through personal interviews of the actors who participated in the policy process, review of documents, reports, and correspondence. The case study permitted the exploration of the process by focusing on the consistency of the creation of the National Center for Nursing Research in respect to other institutes of the National Institutes of Health, the presence of windows of opportunity, the actors involved in the process, and the comparison to existing models of agenda building. Construct validity, internal and external validity, and reliability were established through triangulation and comparison of the researcher's interpretations by peer evaluation.

The process discovered in this case study cannot be generalized to existing agenda setting models after its initial stage, rather, both an accidental and suppression model would appear warranted. It reinforces the fact that issues follow different routes to achieve agenda status.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-07, Section: A, page: 2715.

Thesis (PH.D.)--SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY, 1993.

School code: 0193.