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PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA AND RESPONSIVENESS GOVERNANCE CCASP

Protection and the Commission for Privatization and Administration of the State assets - is rather an
exception.

The presented research clearly reveals that parliamentary activity shows, at least for the analyzed period,
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the nature of dysfunctions that compromise policy agenda, both in terms of its correspondence with the
priorities of the other two agendas and in terms of haste in which they are debated in Parliament

According Jones and Baumgartner (2005), hearing activity is “the front end” component of the public

policy process. Meaning that it responds more easily to changing information flow than accomplish the
later policymaking process stages.

As a consequence, it is reasonable to expect a realistic response to the concerns of the citizens in the

hearings activity, noting that this response should be offered in the same year If hearings are scheduled
a year after an increase in public attention to a topic , our approach, will not count it(Jones and
Baumgartner, 2005, p.255).

30 th – 31 st October 2015 ”Strategic Management for Local Communities” Bucharest the policy agenda is a result of the convergence, in real time (approx. 1 year), of the three agendas of
With this consideration, we appreciate that the concept of responsiveness government is viable only if

others: public, governmental and parliamentary. Adopted standard for assessing the quality convergence

of agendas is quite strict; the parliament must take into consideration the priorities of the public agenda
in real time, but not later that one year.

Furthermore, between the two concepts is a mutual conditioning. In this sense, the existence of a policy

agenda, defined such by the result of convergence between the three agendas, provides a strong support
for responsiveness government to work.

In addition, achieving the policy agenda in this way represents a guarantee for democracy; issues raised

by different interest groups, must be, first, put on the public agenda and only than put on the governmental
and parliamentary agendas.

A special case is represented by the international organizations and public issues that these organizations

try to directly promote on the governmental or parliamentary agenda. While solving other problems than
the society requires it seems to be a threat to democracy and the political analysts believe that the future

capabilities of states to act will depend on their ability to auto-connect to the international context (Beck,
2004, p.46).

From our point of view and in terms of previous statements, it is necessary that the states should be

concerned on development of the dynamic capabilities. Dynamic capabilities refer to the particular

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