Discontented domestic groups will politicize issues and force more issues once considered domestic onto the interstate agenda.
Shifts in the distribution of power resources within sets of issues will also affect agendas.
During the early 1970s the increased power of oil-producing governments over the transnational corporations and the consumer countries dramatically altered the policy agenda.
Moreover, agendas for one group of issues may change as a result of linkages from other groups in which power resources are changing; for example, the broader agenda of North-South trade issues changed after the OPEC price rises and the oil embargo of 1973-74.
Even if capabilities among states do not change, agendas may be affected by shifts in the importance of transnational actors.
The publicity surrounding multinational corporations in the early 1970s, coupled with their rapid growth over the past twenty years, put the regulation of such corporations higher on both the United Nations agenda and national agendas.