Policy Dynamics

By: Frank R. Baumgartner (Editor), Bryan D. Jones (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 June 2002 | Edition Number 1

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While governmental policies and institutions may remain more or less the same for years, they can also change suddenly and unpredictably in response to new political agendas and crises. What causes stability or change in the political system? What role do political institutions play in this process?

To investigate these questions, Policy Dynamics draws on the most extensive data set yet compiled for public policy issues in the United States. Spanning the past half-century, these data make it possible to trace policies and legislation, public and media attention to them, and governmental decisions over time and across institutions. Some chapters analyze particular policy areas, such as health care, national security, and immigration, while others focus on institutional questions such as congressional procedures and agendas and the differing responses by Congress and the Supreme Court to new issues.

Policy Dynamics presents a radical vision of how the federal government evolves in response to new challenges-and the research tools that others may use to critique or extend that vision.

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"Over the past decade or so, Baumgartner and Jones have gathered a remarkable data set that traces all policy issues receiving public attention at the national level during the post-World War II era. This data set is in itself a tremendous contribution to the study of American politics, and this stellar book will be a mainstay for scholars and for courses on American politics and policy." - Lawrence C. Dodd, author of Congress and the Administrative State

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Central Government Central Government Policies History Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Regional & National History History of the Americas Political Science & Theory Miscellaneous Items

Preface	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. xi
Theoretical Beginnings	p. 1
Positive and Negative Feedback in Politics	p. 3
Studying Policy Dynamics	p. 29
Multidimensionality and Punctuated Equilibrium in Public Policy	p. 47
The Logic of Positive Feedback: Telecommunications Policy through the Creation, Maintenance, and Destruction of a Regulated Monopoly	p. 51
The Multiple and Changing Goals of Immigration Reform: A Comparison of House and Senate Activity, 1947-1993	p. 73
Multiple Topics, Multiple Targets, Multiple Goals, and Multiple Decision Makers: Congressional Consideration of Comprehensive Health Care Reform	p. 96
The Multiple Goals of Science and Technology Policy	p. 125
The Changing Focus of National Security Policy	p. 155
The Coevolution of the Issues and Structures of American Politics	p. 185
The Changing Public Agenda over the Postwar Period	p. 189
Omnibus Legislation: An Institutional Reaction to the Rise of New Issues	p. 205
New Issues, New Members: Committee Composition and the Transformation of Issue Agendas on the House Banking and Public Works Committees	p. 230
Using Bills and Hearings to Trace Attention in Congress: Policy Windows in Health Care Legislating	p. 250
The Changing Agendas of Congress and the Supreme Court	p. 270
Conclusions	p. 291
Punctuations, Ideas, and Public Policy	p. 293
Complete List of Topics and Subtopics Used in the Policy Agendas Project	p. 307
Complete List of Topics and Subtopics Used by OMB	p. 317
United States Supreme Court Judicial Data Base Codes Used by Spaeth	p. 319
Linking the Policy Agenda Topic Codes with Those Used by Spaeth	p. 327
References	p. 331
Index	p. 353
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