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- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright
- Copyright University of Kent
- ISSN
- 1469-798X
- eISSN
- 1360-0826
- DOI
- 10.1080/13600826.2011.553914
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Why and how do issues expire? This paper applies the concept of path dependency to issue-life cycle and argues that the manner in which an issue dies is closely associated with how it comes to life. This paper argues that, on the Access to Medicines issue, the first actors (1) to have called attention to a legal problem, (2) to have capitalised on the HIV/AIDs crisis, and (3) to have used the example of Africa, were also the first to have felt constrained by their own frame in their attempt to (1) look for economical rather than legal solutions, (2) expand the list of medicines covered beyond anti-AIDs drugs, and (3) allow large emerging economies to benefit from a scheme designed by countries without manufacturing capacities. In order to escape an issue in which they felt entrapped, issue-entrepreneurs worked strategically to close the debate in order to better reframe it in other forums.
Journal
Global Society – Taylor & Francis
Published: Apr 1, 2011