This is still the conventional view, that governments, especially those of the authoritarian variety, are bound to cede control over agenda-setting to the emerging loose networks of angry, highly mobile and democracy-hungry netizens armed with nothing more than blogs and social networks.
The changes give Parliament more control over its agenda and limit the right of presidential decree.
Here's one more: The first 60 days of a legislative session offer the governor a moment of control over the agenda, and he has decided to point the spotlight, for now, on immigration and property rights, the second issue he declared to be an emergency.
If boards are to avoid the trap of "check-box" compliance and short-term focus, they need to take action to reclaim control over the agenda, and target those investors who are in for the long term.
Though Francis, who is 76, says he prefers the simplicity of his present lodgings, the decision has enabled him to exercise greater control over his agenda.
Nation-states are less and less capable of controlling their own political agendas while they exercise at the same time far too much control over the agendas of substate polities as well as supranational unions of states that are better suited to address problems that nation-states cannot deal with adequately.
Whether it was real flu or the diplomatic kind, it enabled Mr Cardoso to avoid getting involved in an undignified scramble for power that might have torn apart his loose centre-right coalition.The presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies have considerable control over their agendas, and thus enjoy both power and publicity.
Mr. Klein outlined a system in which the leaders of the Republican caucus and the Independent Democratic Conference would work together to run the Senate, with joint control over committee agendas, the bills that are taken up on the floor and state budget negotiations.
Over these last few years, biomaterials researchers have become more established in their research settings and gained more control over research agendas, says John P. Fisher, a professor in the Tissue Engineering & Biomaterials Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park.
"For a long time, the government had complete control over the news agenda through the control of the mainstream media.
In a report published last month, the Constitution Unit suggested that control over they Commons agenda should be reformed, with more time set aside for "non-government" business, with this genuinely under the control of MPs.
