In search of clearer distinctions

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In search of clearer distinctions

• Issue
• Bushs commitment to NASA space projects
• Georgias initiative to exclude the word
  evolution from science curriculum
• Bush appoints commis-sion to evaluate (WMD)
  intelligence
• Outlaw foreign aid for population growth projects

• Term
• Substantive agenda
• Symbolic agenda
• Symbolic response to substantive issue

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Two additional issues

• hidden agenda as it relates to elite theory vs.
  pluralist theory

• The appropriate scope (or size) of the public
  agenda
• Too few (or too many) substantive issues?
• Too few (or too many) symbolic issues?