At a Glacial Pace: Issue Emphasis and the Slow Process of Policy Formation in the Context of U.K. Major Legislation

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Public Policy, Legislator Characteristics, and Behavior

Brief Overview

What explains the intra-party process for pushing issues onto a party’s agenda? Major legislation analysis is reapplied to explain how politicians selectively use parliamentary institutions to push issues onto their party’s agenda.

Author

• Christine Sylvester, Binghamton University