Cultural Strategies of Agenda Denial: Avoidance, Attack, and RedefinitionAgenda setting is a key component in the democratic process if political outsiders are to have their concerns taken seriously. However, their efforts sometimes fail for reasons other than insufficient resources or incompetent leaders: opponents often succeed in keeping new issues from ever reaching the agendas of decision makers. This is the first book devoted to examining why some issues proposed by aggrieved individuals or groups are denied access