Agendas and Instability in American Politics, Second Edition Book

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