Research On Policy Agenda Trigger Mechanism Of Environmental Group Events In Risk Society

China’s economic and social development has given birth to frequent risk problems.The intensification of social contradictions has stimulated the sudden change of risk problems.Risks have become increasingly routine,normalized and diversified.Since 1996,the number of mass conflicts caused by environmental appeals has increased by 29% every year.The issue of environmental risk has increasingly become the focus of public attention and discussion.Frequent environmental mass incidents have brought a series of problems and challenges to the Chinese government’s environmental governance.In view of the increasingly serious environmental problems,China has put forward some guidelines and policies for environmental construction to provide policy support for the public’s environmental struggle from the institutional level.However,it is still a very long and difficult process for China’s environmental issues to enter the policy agenda.This paper attempts to explore the mechanism of environmental mass events triggering the policy agenda,clarify the role division among the public,the media and the government,especially the performance of media publicity in the process of triggering the policy agenda,so as to build a different government response model from the past,and strive to improve the government’s ability to deal with environmental mass events and promote the transformation of the government’s environmental governance ability in the new era.This paper takes 43 environmental mass events from 2006 to 2021 as research cases,adopts text analysis and qualitative comparative analysis,takes multi-source theory and belief system as the theoretical basis,and uses the descriptive concept of resistance in resistance political theory for reference to set variable conditions,From the "logic of resistance" and "logic of issues",seven dimensions are extracted to explain the mechanism of environmental mass events triggering the policy agenda: "resistance demands","resistance scale","resistance strategy","central media party media participation","event direction","level of origin" and "absence of government functions".The study found that the scale of "more than 1000 people" and the event pointing to "the public power of government officials" are the necessary conditions for environmental group events to successfully trigger the policy agenda.In the process,there are three typical combination paths and two modes,namely "active interaction-consensus formation" and "external pressure-passive response".The central media and the party media run through the two modes to give play to publicity.By discussing the mechanism of the two modes,we can see that the trigger mechanism of the "active interaction-forming consensus" mode is "attention,guidance and consensus",and the trigger mechanism of the "external pressure-passive response" mode is "perception,momentum and trigger",and the guidance mode gradually occupies a dominant position.On the one hand,it shows that the public opinion response mode of Chinese decision makers and their decision-making departments to environmental issues has gradually changed from "external pressure-passive response" to "active interaction-consensus formation";On the other hand,it also shows that the public’s awareness of autonomous participation in the policy agenda is gradually improving,and the passive information receiver is changing to the active information disseminator.Finally,in order to fundamentally prevent and avoid the occurrence and expansion of environmental mass events and weaken the harm of environmental risk,this paper proposes that the public should eliminate stereotypes and improve their ability to perceive environmental risk;Balanced media coverage and channel linking;The government should enhance consensus and strengthen the early warning response mechanism.