(en) This article employs an original analytical model based on Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework to analyse four Brussels’ agenda setting processes from the mobility, health and public safety sectors. Methodologically, it combines process tracing and qualitative comparisons relying on a triangulation of sources to answer the following research question : to what extent does completing the Multiple Streams Framework with additional variables specific to consensual systems make it possible to obtain a better understanding of the Brussels agenda setting process leading to the adoption or the reject of entrepreneurs’ solutions ? Our results show that Kingdon’s model provides an important, although incomplete, understanding of the processes studied. Consequently, this article illustrates how the Multiple Streams Framework can be supplemented in order to overcome its insufficiencies relating to consensual (federal) systems and thus increase its explanatory power over agenda setting in such contexts.
Bocquet, N. (2020). Théorie des courants multiples et systèmes politiques consensuels. L’adoption de solutions techniques en Région bruxelloise. Gouvernement et action publique, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.3917/gap.203.0081 (Original work published 2020)