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PDF's or links to readings you'll need to do:
Baumgartner, Frank R., Bryan D. Jones, and John Wilkerson. 2002. Studying Policy Dynamics. Chapter 2 (pp. 29-49) in Policy Dynamics. Ed. Bryan D. Jones and Frank R. Baumgartner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Johnson, Janet Buttloph, Roichard A. Joslyn, and H.T. Reynolds. 2001. Political Science Research Methods, 4th edition. Chapter 4. The Building Blocks of Social Science: Measurement. Pp. 72–110.
Baumgartner, Frank R., and Bryan D. Jones. 1991. Agenda Dynamics and Policy Subsystems. Journal of Politics 53 (November): 1044-74.
King, BG, Bentele, KG and Soule, SA. 2007. Protest and Policy Making: Explaining Fluctuation in Congressional Attention to Rights Issues: 1960-1986. Social Forces 86:137-163.
Hilgartner, Stephen and Charles L. Bosk. 1988. The Rise and Fall of Social Problems—A Public Arenas Model. American Journal of Sociology 94: 53-78.
Boykoff, M. T. and J. M. Boykoff. 2007. Climate Change and Journalistic Norms: A Case-Study of U.S. Mass media Coverage. Geoforum 38:1190-1204.
Baumgartner, Frank R. 2005. The Growth and Diversity of US Associations, 1956–2004: Analyzing Trends using the Encyclopedia of Associations. Working paper. March 29.
Martin, Andrew W., John McCarthy, and Frank R. Baumgartner. 2006. Measuring Association Populations Using the Encyclopedia of Associations: Evidence from the Field of Labor Unions. Social Science Research 35 (2006): 771-778.
Brulle, Robert J., Liesel Turner, J. Craig Jenkins and Jason Carmichael. 2007. “Measuring Social Movement Organization Populations: A Comprehensive Census of US Environmental Movement Organizations.” Mobilization 12: 255-70.
Baumgartner, Frank R.,Suzanna L. De Boef and Amber E. Boydstun. 2008. The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence. New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 4, “The Shifting Terms of Debate”
Baumgartner, Frank R.,Suzanna L. De Boef and Amber E. Boydstun. 2008. The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence. New York: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 7, “The Rise and Fall of a Public Policy”
Woolley, J. T. 2000. Using Media-Based Data in Studies of Politics. American Journal of Political Science 44: 156-173.