Policy attention requires problem, solution, and political context to converge simultaneously.

Evidence

His agenda-setting framework includes three “streams,” which reflect key features of the agenda-setting process: (1) the existence of problems, created endogenously by powerful actors or which occur exogenously (e.g., ebola), (2) existence of solutions, and (3) a favorable political context. In terms of figure 10.2, we have three boxes instead of two, with a stream in each box. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts and Measurement, 1581

Categorization

• XREF: Hard-links to the multiple-streams model familiar from Kingdom’s work on agenda setting; useful as a canonical conjuncture example.