Multiple Streams Framework: Community Health Needs Post-George Floyd/COVID-19

• In Event: The Dynamics of Agenda Setting in Policymaking

Abstract

This study aims to unpack whether COVID-19 and the killing of George Floyd impacted agenda-setting within local collaborative governance initiatives. Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) posits that changes in indicators (Herweg, Zahariadis, and Zohlnhöfer 2018; DeLeo 2018) and focusing events (Birkland 1997; 1998; 2006; O’Donovan 2017) drive both agenda-setting and agenda-change within federal, state, and local governments (Herw eg, Zahariadis, and Zohlnhöfer 2018). What remains less clear is the nexus between indicators, focusing events and agenda-setting within collaborative governance institutions. Both events fall along the Indicator-Event Continuum (DeLeo et al. 2021) and may impact policies and/or programs in multiple policy areas including police reform and healthcare policy and practice, among various others. This research, in particular, examines whether community health needs’ evaluative theory/modeling and/or analysis were impacted by these two events.

Authors

• John A. Grummel, Upper Iowa University

• Stephanie Zarb, Wayne State University