Agendas and instability in American politics
By: Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones.
Contributors: Jones, Bryan D.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Chicago studies in American politics
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780226039473; 9780226039497
Subjects: Political planning -- United States; Policy sciences; United States -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theoretical beginnings; title: Punctuated equilibria in politics; title: Policy images and institutional venues; title: Studying agenda change; title: Tracing policy change in America; title: The construction and collapse of a policy monopoly; title: Two models of issue expansion; title: The dynamics of media attention; title: Cities as a national political problem; title: Connecting solutions to problems: three valence issues; title: Structural and contextual change in politics; title: Interest groups and agenda setting; title: Congress as a jurisdictional battlefield; title: Federalism as a system of policy venues; title: Governing through institutional disruption; title: Agendas and instability, fifteen years later; title: Policy subsystems, punctuated equilibrium, and theories of policy change; title: Punctuated equilibrium and disruptive dynamics.