agenda
Political Science
(noun)
A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
Writing
(noun)
A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
Management
(noun)
A temporally organized plan for matters for discussion or tasks to be carried out.
Examples of agenda in the following topics:
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Managing Organizational Priorities
- Agendas may also be used as a means of highlighting current progress and projecting future progress.
- Agendas are also used broadly in the political and public domain, where meetings held by public institutions, NGOs, or political groups are approached and organized via a given agenda.
- Skilled managers may construct and implement an agenda in an organizational setting.
- Agendas are an excellent tool for organizing thoughts and leading discussion.
- The pursuit of agendas requires a similar set of managerial skills.
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Legislative Agendas
- An agenda is a list of meeting activities in the order in which they are to be taken up in the legislature.
- An agenda may also be called a "docket. "
- In parliamentary procedure, an agenda is not binding upon an assembly unless its own rules make it so or unless it has been adopted as the agenda for the meeting by majority vote at the start of the meeting.
- If an agenda is binding upon an assembly, and a specific time is listed for an item.
- A political party can be described as shaping the political agenda or setting the political agenda if its promotion of certain issues gains prominent news coverage.
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Issue Identification and Agenda Building
- The first step of the policy process involves issues being turned into agenda items for policymaking bodies.
- Many problems exist within the United States but few make it onto the public policy agenda.
- Those problems that do move onto the policy agenda must first be identified as salient issues.
- The power of the group in question can affect whether an issue moves onto the policy agenda.
- In all of the aforementioned examples, issues have a high likelihood of becoming agenda items.
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Agenda-Setting Theory
- Agenda-setting theory was formally developed by Dr.
- Agenda-setting is the media's ability to transfer salience issues through their new agenda.
- This way, the public agenda can form an understanding of the salience issues.
- After gatekeeping comes agenda-setting.
- In addition, different media have different agenda-setting potential.
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The Mass Media
- Setting the news agenda, which shapes the public's views on what is newsworthy and important
- The formation of public opinion starts with agenda setting by major media outlets throughout the world.
- This agenda setting dictates what is newsworthy and how and when it will be reported.
- The media agenda is set by a variety of different environmental and newswork factors that determines which stories will be newsworthy.
- Based on media agenda setting and media framing, most often a particular opinion gets repeated throughout various news mediums and social networking sites, until it creates a false vision where the perceived truth is actually very far away from the actual truth.
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Policy Formulation
- Formulation is the second stage of the policy process and involves the proposal of solutions to agenda issues.
- Formulation of policy consists of policymakers discussing and suggesting approaches to correcting problems that have been raised as part of the agenda.
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News Coverage
- The political analyst and consultant Gary Wasserman attests that media institutions' "most important political function" is to play the role of an "agenda setter," where they "[put] together an agenda of national priorities - what should be taken seriously, what lightly, what not at all. "
- Agenda-setting is somewhat limited within domestic politics.
- In regards to foreign policy, agenda-setting could take place in areas in which very few Americans have direct experience of the issues at hand.
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Collaborating on Academic Writing Projects
- Compare these two statements: "We should probably get back to the points on the agenda" vs.
- An agenda is a written plan outlining the issues that will be discussed at a specific meeting.
- Effective agendas strike a balance between describing goals in detail and expressing each point concisely.
- Some groups choose one leader to write agendas and run meetings.
- Smaller groups can either adopt this strategy or write future agendas together at the end of each meeting.
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Issue Voting
- Most issues that are part of the national agenda can sometimes be a consequence of media agenda-setting and agenda-building.
- The public can go away to another media source, so it is in the media's commercial interest to try to find an agenda which corresponds as closely as possible to peoples' desires.
- They may not be entirely successful, but the agenda-setting potential of the media is considerably limited by the competition for the viewers' interest, readers and listeners.
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Making the Most of Committees
- The executive director and staff at one United Way office I know of excel at gently, repeatedly, and clearly notifying their board members of the time and agenda of each meeting.
- To give people a solid idea of what to expect in a meeting, divide the agenda into simple categories: for instance, establishing a quorum; approving minutes and the agenda; officers' and (sub)committee reports; old business; new business, and "other."
- A social worker with Child Welfare Services for the State of Washington once showed me how to write agendas which map out meetings in crisp detail.
- You may want to designate a "sheriff" rotating the role at each meeting—to watch for departures from the agenda and courteously direct people back on task.