TY - JOUR ID - 72740 TI - Understanding Agenda Setting in Local Governments (Case Study: Mashhad City Council) JO - Journal of Public Administration JA - JIPA LA - en SN - 2008-5877 AU - Gholipour, Rahmatolah AU - Hamidizadeh, Ali AU - Akhavan Alavi, Seyed Hussain AU - Faraji Mollaie, Amin AU - Rastegar, Seyed Hamed AD - Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. AD - Assistant Prof., Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management, Farabi Campus, University of Tehran, Qom, Iran. AD - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management, Farabi Campus, University of Tehran, Qom, Iran. Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 11 IS - 4 SP - 557 EP - 580 KW - Agenda setting KW - Hermeneutics KW - phenomenology DO - 10.22059/jipa.2019.283225.2568 N2 - Objective:This is an inquiry in agenda setting in Mashhad city council as an example of a local government in Iran. This research is undertaken in order to understand and improve agenda setting in local governments. Methods: Phenomenological hermeneutics and hermeneutic phenomenology (constructivist grounded theory) are used in this research. Results: A dual construct is made for agenda setting in local governments, based on soft periphery and a hard core. The hard inner core constitutes of personal features of policy maker while soft periphery is based on circumstances. There are pre-factors and post factors that embed pre and post effects of an issue when it is set as an agenda. Pre factors include ex-ante evaluation, temporal effects and the likelihood of a bills to pass. Post factors are feedbacks, target population and the issue itself. Conclusion: Agenda settingdynamic in Mashhad city council as a local government differs from existent patterns. Here, the agenda setting process has become individualized due to the lack of a decision support systems and proper feedback. UR - https://jipa.ut.ac.ir/article_72740.html L1 - https://jipa.ut.ac.ir/article_72740_a455342013abbd97f34d42cf9387c62c.pdf ER -