Cultural strategies of agenda denial : Avoidance, attack, and redefinition / Edited Roger W. Cobb & Marc Howard Ross - New York : University Press Kansas, 1997 - xiii, 230 p.

Agenda setting and the denial of agenda access : Key concepts, 3. -- Denying agenda access : Strategic considerations, 25. -- Agenda denial and issue containment in the regulation of financial securities : The SEC 1933-1995, 49. -- Making professional accounting accountable : an issue doomed to fail, 70. -- The food and drug administration, 70. -- Strategies of agenda denial : Issues definition and the case of bST, 89. -- Blue smoke, mirrors, and mediators : The symbolic contest over RU 486, 112. -- Symbolic politic and health care reform in the 1940s and 1990s, 141. -- Agenda denial and water access in texas colonias, 158. -- Agenda denial as a comparative political process, 183. -- Why didn³t waldheim's past matter more? a public agenda denial in Austria, 183. -- Conclusion : Agenda denial - The power of competing cultural definitions, 203

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