Agendas and Instability in American Politics, Second Edition
- Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
Part One: Theoretical Beginnings
1 Punctuated Equilibria in Politics
2 Policy Images and Institutional Venues
3 Studying Agenda Change
Part Two: Tracing Policy Change in America
4 The Construction and Collapse of a Policy Monopoly
5 Two Models of Issue Expansion
6 The Dynamics of Media Attention
7 Cities as a National Political Problem
8 Connecting Solutions to Problems: Three Valence Issues
Part Three: Structural and Contextual Change in Politics
9 Interest Groups and Agenda-Setting
10 Congress as a Jurisdictional Battlefield
11 Federalism as a System of Policy Venues
12 Governing through Institutional Disruption
Part Four: Agendas and Instability, Fifteen Years Later
13 Policy Subsystems, Puncuated Equilibrium, and Theories of Policy Change
14 Punctuated Equilibrium and Disruptive Dynamics
Appendix A: Data Sources
Appendix B: Regression Analysis of Agenda Dynamics
References
Index
Political Science: American Government and Politics | Public Policy
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