The performance of the Danish economy in the 1990s has been successful to the extent that scholars are talking about a Danish miracle. The importance of government policies to Denmark's economic success is taken as a point of departure in investigating why Danish governments have been able to...

Agenda-setting theory has a long tradition within policy studies but took a major leap forward with the work of Baumgartner and Jones and their formulation of punctuated equilibrium theory (PET). Since then, an extensive literature has developed, both evaluating the notion of punctuated...