AGENDA-SETTING AND POLICY DESIGN OF THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR NURSING RESEARCH LEGISLATIVE AMENDMENT (LEGISLATIVE AMENDMENTS).
Contributors: University of Nebraska--Lincoln.
Published: 1993
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Political Science, General.; Political Science, Public Administration.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: Process analysis of the National Center for Nursing Research legislative amendment was studied by a case study approach. The research was conducted to gain a better understanding of the agenda setting and policy design aspects of public policy. Theoretical models of Schneider and Ingram, Kingdon, and others served as the conceptual base for the data analysis. Data collection was obtained through government documents, professional archival documents, public media, and 38 personal and telephone interviews. Research findings supported these hypotheses--(1) policy is more likely to be initiated for those target populations who are positively perceived by Congressmen, (2) issues are more likely to reach formal agenda status when the political stream factors are related to positively perceived target populations, and (3) policy process is best understood in a contextual dimension. The confluence of the Schneider and Ingram model of 'social construction of target populations' with a modification of Kingdon's theory in concert with a contextual perspective was explanatory for the agenda setting of this policy. Policy outcomes of this 1983 legislation with changes made a decade later validated aspects of policy design theory.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-01, Section: A, page: 0142.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN, 1993.

School code: 0138.