List of Illustrations
Preface
Pt. 1 Theoretical Beginnings 1
1 Punctuated Equilibria in Politics 3
2 Policy Images and Institutional Venues 25
3 Studying Agenda Change 39
Pt. 2 Tracing Policy Change in America 57
4 The Construction and Collapse of a Policy Monopoly 59
5 Two Models of Issue Expansion 83
6 The Dynamics of Media Attention 103
7 Cities as a National Political Problem 126
8 Connecting Solutions to Problems: Three Valence issues 150
Pt. 3 Structural and Contextual Change in Politics 173
9 Interest Groups and Agenda-Setting 175
10 Congress as a Jurisdictional Battlefield 193
11 Federalism as a System of Policy Venues 216
12 Governing through Institutional Disruption 235
Appendix A: Data Sources 253
Appendix B: Regression Analysis of Agenda Dynamics 269
References 277
Index
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