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THERE IS GROWING ATTENTIN AT LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL LEVELS TO LOSSES IN FARMLAND THROUGH CONVERSION TO URBAN AND OTHER USES. HOWEVER, THOSE CONCERNED WITH AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATIN DISAGREE ABOUT THE IMPACT OF FARMLAND CONVERSION AND URBANIZATION OF IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. THE MOST BASIC STEP IN DEVELOPING A PRESERVATION POLICY IS TO DEFINE THE PROBLEMS FACING A PROGRAM OF THIS KIND.

While Kissinger's observation that Cubans did not play soccer in 1970 was incorrect, the inference that the Soviets were building some kind of naval facility at Cienfuegos, at least opening the possibility of another Cuban crisis, was on the mark. Yet this incident never grew into a full-blown episode in U.S. foreign policy, and no U.S. force was used. There are no great books about this incident, and there have previously been only a few scholarly articles about it.

Following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, Republican-controlled legislatures across the U.S. initiated draconian abortion restrictions. In order to appeal to anti-abortion policymakers, advocates across the country have strategically separated "maternal and child health" (MCH) issues, such as increased insurance coverage for midwifery and doula care, from issues often labeled as "reproductive rights," such as access to sex education, birth control, and abortion. Advocates point out this strategic separation has likely contributed overall to the downfall of abortion rights. In this paper, we analyze legislative discourse to understand the legislative challenges advocates face, the strategic separations and allyships they employ, and the implications for other states and reproductive health more broadly. We find that legislators legitimate the same scientific evidence in some contexts while not in others in order to hold onto rhetorical purity within the abortion debate. In their attempts to parse the ideal abortion seeker, conservative legislators create legal ambiguities with serious consequences for healthcare.

Analyzes official record of three congressional hearings on air bags and compares it with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) rules, to examine the relation between how a social problem is defined and how policy is formulated; 1996-97; US.

AbstractIn the literature on the role of agency in the policy process, relatively little attention has been devoted to how agents define policy problems. This article helps to address this gap by asking when and how policy entrepreneurs are successful in defining problems. The article rests on a framework that shows how policy entrepreneurs holding specific ideas and given a propitious socioeconomic context are able to define problems, translate those problems into new frames, and draw on those frames, while using their personal skills and political and institutional resources, to help build supportive coalitions in favor of policy change. Illustrated by a puzzling case in the field of European mobility policy, the article offers a new perspective on the role of ideas at the problem definition stage of the policy process, while providing a richer understanding of the policy entrepreneur as a driver of policy change.

This case study of an ethnoterritorial minority's role in agenda setting argues that the extant agenda setting literature does not take into account different cultural perceptions of the definitions of problems. Using the hearings on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, the differen‐ ces in understanding of the problem by the Alaskan natives who testified before the Committee and the Senators who received the testimony are examined.