Setting of public agenda in the global society

Abstract

From the perspective of public policy cycle, the capacity to account for social controversies that emerge within society is identified in the setting of a public agenda. Conventionally, this function has been attributed to the State. However, in the face of the imminent establishment of a global society, it is possible to observe the involvement of international and supranational organizations in the policy generating and introduction process, crossing over the nation-state border. We propose to explore the setting of a public agenda in the global society, observing the ascendant and descendent mechanisms of the levels that constitute it, namely: local, regional and global. In this way, we will display the operations that distinguish new actors involved in the identification and definition of social problems with a global projection, i.e., think tanks, epistemic communities inter alia, that mediated by the generation of expertise and knowledge influence the setting of the agenda at the various levels of the global society.