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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:

 

  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:
  • 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
Additional data referenced in the chapter:
  • 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:

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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