ABSTRACT
Cross-national studies of public policy agenda-setting are rare, as are studies that trace changing political attention to issues across time. The fact that such studies are rare means that we know little about the extent to which issue politics transcend national boundaries. Although it seems likely that health care or energy issues (for example) are larger than any particular political system, few if any studies attempt to compare how issues affect politics across systems. In this paper, we trace political attention to health in the US and Denmark over fifty years to consider whether this issue has created similar political pressures across two nations.
