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The Complex Agenda-Setting Power of Protest: Demonstrations, Media, Parliament, Government, and Legislation in Belgium, 1993-2000

Citation:

Walgrave, S. & Vliegenthart, R. (2012). “The Complex Agenda-Setting Power of Protest: Demonstrations, Media, Parliament, Government, and Legislation in Belgium, 1993-2000”. In Mobilization, 17 (2), 129-156. Chapel Hill, San Diego,: University of North Carolina, San Diego State University. Retrieved January 07, 2023 from https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.17.2.pw053m281356572h

Work data:

Type of work: Article (academic)

ISSN: 1938-1514

Categories:

Participation | Politics and Political Science

Tags:

social movements

Alternate URL:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefaan-Walgrave/publication/237444518_The_Complex_Agenda-Setting_Power_of_Protest_Demonstrations_Media_Parliament_Government_and_Legislation_in_Belgium_1993-2000/links/586bcee108aebf17d3a5aed5/The-Complex-Agenda-Setting-Power-of-Protest-Demonstrations-Media-Parliament-Government-and-Legislation-in-Belgium-1993-2000.pdf?origin=publicationDetail&_sg%5B0%5D=Mh9zP

Abstract:

We conducted pooled time-series analyses to assess how number and size of demonstrations affect the political agenda in Belgium (1993-2000). Taking twenty-five issues into account, this study finds that protest matters for the political agenda setting. This study also advances scholarly understanding of the agenda-setting power of protest by showing that the causal mechanisms of protest impact are complex and contingent. The parliamentary, governmental, and legislative attention for issues is significantly and differently affected by preceding protest activities. The media act as an intermediary variable: media coverage emerges in response to protest and, in turn, affects the political agenda afterwards. Protests on some issues have more effect than on others: in Belgium, new social movements protests are especially effective in causing parliament and government to focus attention on the issue.