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Enrico Borghetto & Belchior, Ana Maria (2017). The determinants of the executive weekly agenda in Portugal: party mandates vs media attention. 10th Annual Conference of the Comparative Agendas Project .

E. Borghetto and A. M. Belchior,  "The determinants of the executive weekly agenda in Portugal: party mandates vs media attention", in 10th Annu. Conf. of the Comparative Agendas Project , Endimburgo, 2017

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	author = "Enrico Borghetto and Belchior, Ana Maria",
	title = "The determinants of the executive weekly agenda in Portugal: party mandates vs media attention",
	year = "2017"
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TY  - CPAPER
TI  - The determinants of the executive weekly agenda in Portugal: party mandates vs media attention
T2  - 10th Annual Conference of the Comparative Agendas Project 
AU  - Enrico Borghetto
AU  - Belchior, Ana Maria
PY  - 2017
CY  - Endimburgo
AB  - National executives are the engine of policy change in political systems.
Unsurprisingly, the formation of executive agendas attracted a lot of attention in
scholarly research: a number of works were devoted to the analysis of the policy
content of government programs (Breeman et al., 2009; Jennings et al., 2011;
Mortensen et al., 2011). These documents are set on a periodic basis, at the
beginning of either the legislative mandate or each legislative session. On the
other hand, we still know little about how executives micro-manage their agenda
on a weekly basis. How do they reconcile party commitments and external
pressures coming from society and conveyed by the media at this micro-level?
This paper contributes to understand the mechanisms of short-term executive
agenda-setting by analysing the policy content of Council of ministers weekly
press releases in Portugal from 2002 until 2015. By means of time-series crosssectional
models it investigates how the executive weekly agenda responds to
governing and opposition platform commitments as well as to the issue focus of
the mass media. It also asks how economic conditions may affect these
dynamics.
ER  -