January 17, 2006 POLS Hogwood and Gunn, Chaps 5-7, Focus on Issue Analysis: Search, Filtration, Definition Issue Search: an attempt to isolate a potential/actual problem at a sufficiently early stage (versus ‘firefighting’) While also realizing that issues get on policy agendas for many reasons

January 17, 2006 POLS Continuum from regularly recurring to rarely occurring and unique issues Combined with a continuum from standardized to case by case solutions 6 reasons issues most likely to be on agenda, p reasons for and against active issue search, pp

January 17, 2006 POLS Distinctive aspects of public sector issue search, pp External elements in issue search, Methods of more active search, The active issue search function and its institutional setting, The important role of politics in influencing issue search in a democracy

January 17, 2006 POLS Issue Filtration, pp Filtration: deciding how to decide Selection of an appropriate method of analysis Context: Criteria for issue filtration, Procedures for issue filtration, Concentrate on tables and figures, , the need for ‘mixed scanning’

January 17, 2006 POLS Issue definition, pp Meaning: 5 concerns pp Why so difficult and what it portends Values, forecasting and issue definition, pp Improving/approaching issue definition: considerations, pp Page 122, Factors explaining vandalism