The Political Agenda-Setting Power of Protest. A Comparative Analysis in Five European Countries.

We investigate the impact of protest on the political agenda. Do protest events addressing a certain issue lead to subsequent increase in attention for that issue on the political agenda? Adopting an agenda-setting approach that takes political attention as the dependent variable solves many theoretical and methodological problems of previous work dealing with social movements' impact and yields a straightforward and standardized time-series design. The research deals with five countries (Belgium, theNetherlands, France, Denmark, and the UK) that are sufficiently different to test a host of comparative hypotheses.

Keywords:SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, AGENDA SETTING

Disciplines:Other economics and business, Citizenship, immigration and political inequality, International and comparative politics, Multilevel governance, National politics, Political behaviour, Political organisations and institutions, Political theory and methodology, Public administration, Other political science