Many scholars argue that the media can influence policymakers – determining the policy agenda, framing issues, prioritising issues and, on occasion, setting the policy as well. It could be, however, that skilled policymakers exploit the media, so that the media in fact reflects the issues that policymakers want debated. This then poses an important question of whether the media does indeed influence the public policy process. The topic of media influence is widely studied in consolidated democracies but there has been limited research in consolidating democracies. This paper addresses both of these gaps – through exploring the extent to which the media influences policymakers in Kenya, a country perceived to have a moderately free press and one in which a range of interest groups vie to influence government and thus with a media likely to carry a range of competing opinions.

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媒体对肯尼亚公共政策的影响

许多学者认为，媒体可以影响政策制定者——确定政策议程、确定问题、确定问题的优先顺序，有时还可以制定政策。然而，熟练的政策制定者可能会利用媒体，因此媒体实际上反映了政策制定者想要辩论的问题。这就提出了一个重要的问题，即媒体是否确实影响了公共政策过程。媒体影响的话题在巩固的民主国家中得到了广泛的研究，但在巩固民主国家方面的研究却很有限。本文解决了这两个差距——通过探讨媒体对肯尼亚政策制定者的影响程度，