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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Frank R Baumgartner; Bryan D Jones |
ISBN: | 9780226039497 9780226039473 0226039498 0226039471 |
OCLC Number: | 488621379 |
Description: | 339 p. |
Contents: | Theoretical beginnings -- Punctuated equilibria in politics -- Policy images and institutional venues -- Studying agenda change -- Tracing policy change in America -- The construction and collapse of a policy monopoly -- Two models of issue expansion -- The dynamics of media attention -- Cities as a national political problem -- Connecting solutions to problems: three valence issues -- Structural and contextual change in politics -- Interest groups and agenda setting -- Congress as a jurisdictional battlefield -- Federalism as a system of policy venues -- Governing through institutional disruption -- Agendas and instability, fifteen years later -- Policy subsystems, punctuated equilibrium, and theories of policy change -- Punctuated equilibrium and disruptive dynamics |
Series Title: | Chicago Studies in American Politics |
Abstract:
Illuminates the workings of democracies beyond the United States. This book presents an account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda. It offers a different interpretation by taking the long view of several issues - including nuclear energy, urban affairs, smoking, and auto safety.
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"Agendas and Instability in American Politics reminds us that ideas, institutions, and (yes) politics all matter.... It is at once a grand synthesis of the past and a path-breaking work against which future studies will be measured." - American Political Science Review, on the first edition" Read more...
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