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Navigating policy dynamics : focusing events, multiple streams framework, discourses and crisis-driven agenda setting in public policy
ID Durnik, Mitja (Author), ID Lemajić, Maša (Author)

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Abstract
The article explores how policymakers respond to focusing events like pandemics, natural disasters, and other critical incidents. Using the “multiple streams framework”, “windows of opportunity” for policy change created from the convergence of political, problem and policy streams are identified. The research primarily brings the Streams concept together with policy discourse approaches to form a combined framework. Special attention is paid to the way the media, social networks, and various policy actors construct the ‘disaster’ reality. The presented case study concerns wildfires that spread across Slovenia in 2022, which were among the worst natural disasters to affect the Karst region and Slovenia generally, exposing institutional and structural weaknesses in organising a response to manage such events. An essential foundation is provided for future research since it is established that focusing events can accelerate agenda setting when discursive coalitions, policy entrepreneurs and stream coupling align around a dominant narrative of urgency. In the Karst wildfires case, this mechanism facilitated selective policy institutionalisation and implementation, but not a radical restructuring of the broader disaster-governance system.

Language:English
Keywords:policy discourse, Multiple Streams Framework, natural hazards, wildfires, Karst, Slovenia, crisis management, natural disasters
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:09.07.2026
Year:2026
Number of pages:Str. 295-326
Numbering:Letn. 63, št. 2
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-184730 This link opens in a new window
UDC:316.653:656.085.2(497.4Kras)"2022"
ISSN on article:0040-3598
DOI:10.51936/tip.63.2.295 This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:284616963 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:14.07.2026
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Title:Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
Shortened title:Teor. praksa
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Language:Slovenian
Title:Vijuganje skozi dinamiko javnih politik
Abstract:
Članek raziskuje, kako se oblikovalci politik odzivajo na fokusne dogodke, kot so pandemije, naravne nesreče in drugi izredni dogodki. Z uporabo okvira več tokov (Multiple Streams Framework) opredeljujemo okna priložnosti za politične spremembe, ki nastanejo ob sovpadanju političnega toka, toka problemov in toka politik. Naša raziskava predvsem nadgrajuje koncept tokov z diskurzivnimi pristopi k analizi javnih politik. Posebna pozornost je namenjena temu, kako mediji, družbena omrežja in različni akterji javnih politik konstruirajo “dejanskost nesreče”. Študija primera obravnava požare v naravi v Sloveniji leta 2022. Ti požari so bili med najhujšimi naravnimi nesrečami, ki so prizadele Kras ter vplivale na celotno Slovenijo, ter so razkrile institucionalne in strukturne slabosti pri upravljanju takšnih dogodkov. Ta analiza predstavlja pomembno izhodišče za prihodnje raziskave. Naše ugotovitve kažejo, da lahko fokusni dogodki pospešijo oblikovanje prednostnega reda, kadar se diskurzivne koalicije, politični podjetniki in povezovanje tokov uskladijo okoli prevladujoče naracije nujnosti. V primeru kraškega požara je ta mehanizem vodil v selektivno institucionalizacijo in izvajanje politik, ni pa prinesel korenitega prestrukturiranja širšega sistema upravljanja nesreč.

Keywords:diskurz javnih politik, okvir več tokov, naravne nevarnosti, požari v naravi, Kras, Slovenija, krizno upravljanje, naravne nesreče

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