RESPONSIVENESS GOVERNANCE AND CONVERGENCE OF AGENDAS
RESPONSIVENESS GOVERNANCE AND CONVERGENCE OF AGENDAS

Summary/Abstract: This research highlights the two concepts: responsiveness government and policy agenda-as a result of convergence between citizens’ priorities and governmental and parliamentary activity, and tries to find evidence to prove a relationship of mutual conditioning between the two concepts. The reason for this research is justified by the need for "vision of the future", a concept devoid of academic rigor and, therefore, difficult to define, but which emphasizes, on the one hand, the force of a clear strategic intent and, on the other hand, the irreplaceable role in achieving this vision of public policy to meet the legitimate expectations of citizens. We see responsiveness as part of democratic signal detection system that alerts policymakers to the anxieties and wishes of the public. Responsiveness, in the context of a system can be defined as an outcome that can be achieved when institutions and institutional relationships are designed in such way that they are cognizant and respond appropriately to the universally legitimate expectations of the citizens. So, responsiveness is the key to the proper functioning of any democracy and an important value itself. A good functioning of the democracy must take into account as a primary value not only representation, but also the means of solving the problems. This involves information processing, communication, and the way through which the public’s preferences are created and influenced by the governmental strategies and through collective dynamics along with establishing the policy agenda as a result of convergence agendas. A policy agenda represents a common place of convergence between citizens’ priorities and governmental and parliamentary activity, is a guarantee that the citizens will receive appropriate and opportune responses of their demands. In other words the convergence agenda involves the existence of responsiveness government.

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