As the introduction to this volume indicates, the comparative study of agendas links to broad
political science concerns, such as power, representation, and party organization. The …

We suggest attention to policy regimes provides a fruitful means for joining the contributions
of scholars who study policy processes with those who are concerned with governance …

The policy agenda is the range of salient issues that the government and other key decision-
makers concentrate on at any one point in time (Kingdon 1995, p. 3). Such topics can …

This study examines the role of “ecological threat” in shaping the US environmental
movement. Statistical analysis combines founding data on 772 national environmental …

Jones and Baumgartner's punctuated equilibrium model of agenda change has
reinvigorated decision‐making theory; moreover their US budget project offers a set of …

Cross-national studies of public policy agenda-setting are rare, as are studies that trace
changing political attention to issues across time. The fact that such studies are rare means …

John Kingdon sets out a multiple streams approach to policymaking, whereby problems,
solutions, and politics develop independently of one another. Kingdon's work suggests that …

We address theoretical and empirical aspects of policy disruptions that affect multiple areas
of policymaking. Our theorizing leads us to consider the effects of widespread disruptions in …

Do patterns of policy attention at the state level influence agenda setting in Washington over
the short term? We examine this question by first developing a series of hypotheses about …

Punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) has reoriented the study of public policy and American
politics in particular. In this study, we documented how a policy punctuation that appears to …