Agenda-Setting in the European Union
In: Palgrave studies in European Union politics
Why does the European Union deal with some issues but not with others? Answering this question is crucial if we are to understand how the EU makes policies and what kind of political system the EU is. This book engages with the processes that shape the EU's political agenda through a systematic analysis of EU agendas in the fields of environmental and health policy. Applying an innovative methodology to trace the attention for issues in policy documents, it analyzes the development of EU agendas over the past three decades and compares them with agendas in the United States. In addition, it of
