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Part One: | Theoretical Beginnings | |
Chapter 1. | Positive and Negative Feedback in Politics |
Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones |
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Chapter 2. | Studying Policy Dynamics |
Frank R. Baumgartner, Bryan D. Jones, and John Wilkerson |
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Tables associated with this chapter:
Table 2.1. Summary of Policy Agendas Project Data Sets- Table 2.2. Major Topic Categories
- Table 2.3. Health Care Subtopics
- Table 2.4. Major Spending Classifications Used by OMB
- Table 2.5. Selected Textual Summaries from Four Data Sets
- Table 2.6. Types of Information Systems
Part Two: | Multidimensionality and Punctuated Equilibrium in Public Policy | |
Chapter 3. | The Logic of Positive Feedback: Telecommunications Policy through the Creation, Maintenance, and Destruction of a Regulated Monopoly |
Michael C. MacLeod |
Data associated with the figures in this chapter:
Figure 3.1. FCC Cases Involving AT&T and Antitrust Issues Figure 3.2. Federal District Court Cases Involving AT&T and Antitrust Issues Figure 3.3. Congressional Hearings on Telecommunications Policy
Chapter 4. | The Multiple and Changing Goals of Immigration Reform: A Comparison of House And Senate Activity, 1947-1993 |
Valerie Hunt |
Data associated with the figures in this chapter:
- Figure 4.1. U.S. Immigration Public Laws
- Figure 4.2. Committee Competition of U.S. Immigration Hearings in House and Senate.
- Figure 4.3. Comparison of House and Senate Immigration Hearings
Chapter 5. | Multiple Topics, Multiple Targets, Multiple Goals, and Multiple Decision-Makers: Congressional Consideration of Comprehensive Health Care Reform |
John W. Hardin |
Data associated with the figures in this chapter:Additional data referenced in the chapter:
- Figure 5.1. Days of Referral and Nonreferral Hearings on Comprehensive Health Care Reform
- Figure 5.2. Cost and Access as Proportion of Total Topics Discussed at Referral and Nonreferral Hearings on Comprehensive Health Care Reform
- Figure 5.3. Health Care Providers as Proportion of Total Target Groups Discussed at Referral and Nonreferral Hearings on Comprehensive Health Care Reform
- Figure 5.4. Health Care Providers as Proportion of Total Witnesses at Referral and Nonreferral Hearings on Comprehensive Health Care Reform
- Table - Definitions of Coding Categories (endnote 7)
- Figure - Committees Holding Hearings on Comprehensive Health Care Reform (p. 104)
- Table - Herfindahl Indexes of Jurisdictional Overlap (p. 104)
- Figure - Average Number of Topics at Hearings on Comprehensive Health Care Reform (endnote 14)
- Figure - Proportion of Comprehensive Health Care Reform Hearings Focusing on Two or Fewer Topics (endnote 14)
- Figure - Proportion of Witness Categories at Hearings on Comprehensive Health Care Reform (endnote 17)
Chapter 6. | The Multiple Goals of Science and Technology Policy |
T. Jens Feeley |
Data associated with the figures in this chapter:
- Figure 6.1. House and Senate Committees Involved in Science and Technology Policy
- Figure 6.2. Changing Topics of Science and Technology Hearings
- Figure 6.3. Comparing Political Factors and Budget Authority (BA) for Science and Technology Programs
- Figure 6.4. Budget Authority (BA) for Science and Technology Subfunctions
Chapter 7. | The Changing Goals of National Security Policy |
James L. True |
Data associated with the figures in this chapter:
- Figure 7.1. U.S. and Soviet Defense Spending
- Figure 7.2. U.S. Defense vs. International Security Support Spending
Part Three: | The Co-evolution of the Issues and Structures of American Politics | |
Chapter 8. | The Changing Public Agenda over the Post-War Period |
Jeffery C. Talbert and Matthew Potoski |
Data associated with the figures in this chapter:
- Figure 8.1. House Staff Levels
- Figure 8.2. The Capacity of the House Agenda, Number of Hearings
- Figure 8.3. The Complexity of the House Agenda, Entropy Score
- Figure 8.4. The Volatility of the House Agenda, Average Length of Hearing
Chapter 9. | Omnibus Legislation: An Institutional Reaction to the Rise of New Issues |
Glen S. Krutz |
Data associated with the figures in this chapter:
- Figure 9.1. Theoretical Framework
- Figure 9.2. Number of Statutes per Congress
- Figure 9.3. Number of Omnibus Bills per Congress
- Figure 9.4. Omnibus Proportion of Major Bills
Additional analysis:
- Click here to view information about Glen Krutz's book, Hitching a Ride: Omnibus Legislation in the U.S. Congress, published by Ohio State University Press.
Chapter 10. | New Issues, New Members: Committee Composition and the Transformation of Issue Agendas on the House Banking and Public Works Committees |
E. Scott Adler |
Data associated with the figures in this chapter:
- Figure 10.1. Percentage of Hearings by the House Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs Committee Devoted to Urban Issues (Days of Hearings)
- Figure 10.2. Hearings on Urban Matters and Constituency Characteristics for Members of the House Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs Committee
- Figure 10.3. Percentage of Hearings by the House Public Works and Transportation Committee Devoted to Highway Construction (Number of Days)
- Figure 10.4. Percentage of Hearings by the House Public Works and Transportation Committee Devoted to Highways as Opposed to Airline and Motor Carrier Regulation and Subsidies
- Figure 10.5. Hearings on Highway Construction and Constituency Characteristics for Members of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee
- Figure 10.6. Hearings on Auto, Truck, and Air Transport Regulations and Subsidies and Constituency Characteristics for Members of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee
Additional data:
- Click here to view the Congressional District Dataset, maintained by Scott Adler.
Chapter 11. | Using Bills and Hearings to Trace Attention in Congress: Policy Windows in Health Care Legislating |
John D. Wilkerson, T. Jens Feeley, Nicole S. Schiereck, and Christi Sue |
Data associated with the figures in this chapter:
- Figure 11.1. Number of House and Senate Bills Introduced on the Subject of Catastrophic Health Care Costs
- Figure 11.2. Bill and Hearings Activity on the Subject of Catastrophic Health Care Costs
- Figure 11.3. Catastrophic Coverage, Long-Term Care Services, and Long-Term Care Insurance Bills
- Figure 11.4. The Content of the Senate's Health Policy Agenda (100th Congress)
- Figure 11.5. The Content of the Senate's Policy Agenda (100th Congress)
Chapter 12. | The Changing Agendas of Congress and the Supreme Court |
Frank R. Baumgartner and Jamie Gold |
Data associated with the figures in this chapter:
- Figure 12.1. Total Committee Hearings and Supreme Court Decisions per Congress
- Figure 12.2. The Decline of Old Issues in Congress
- Figure 12.3. The Rise of New Issues in Congress
- Figure 12.4. The Decline of Old Issues in the Supreme Court
- Figure 12.5. The Rise of New Issues in the Supreme Court
- Figure 12.6. Congress's Attention to Issue Areas
- Figure 12.7. Supreme Court's Attention to Issue Areas
- Figure 12.8. Spread of Attention Across Issue Areas in the Supreme Court and Congress
Part Four: | Conclusions | |
Chapter 13. | Punctuations, Ideas, and Public Policy |
Bryan D. Jones and Frank R. Baumgartner |
Appendices |
- Appendix 1. Complete List of Topics and Subtopics Used in the Policy Agendas Project
- Appendix 2. Complete List of Topics and Subtopics Used by OMB
- Appendix 3. United States Supreme Court Judicial Data Base Codes Used by Spaeth
- Appendix 4. Linking the Policy Agenda Topic Codes with Those Used by Spaeth
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