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The important contribution that scientists make to agenda setting has not been sufficiently recognized in scholarly literature. The students of agenda setting have only recently come to realize the importance of ideas that come from sources outside the government. There has been little research that identifies the scientific community as a source of agenda topics. While there is a large literature devoted to the relationship between science and government, it has generally been concluded that there is no scientific elite with an undue influence upon government. Instead, the principal concern has been the perversion of science by politics. The activity of subgroups of scientists acting as entrepreneurs to set the public agenda on topics in which they have a strong interest has not been widely acknowledged.
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Ingram, H., Brinton Milward, H., Laird, W. (1992). Scientists and Agenda Setting: Advocacy and Global Warming. In: Waterstone, M. (eds) Risk and Society: The Interaction of Science, Technology and Public Policy. Technology, Risk, and Society, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3634-1_3
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