Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas

Frank R. Baumgartner is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Penn State University.Christoffer Green-Pederson is Research Professor of Political Science at University of Aarhus.Bryan D. Jones is Professor of Government and J.J. Pickle Chair of Congressional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

• 1. Agenda-Setting in Comparative Perspective  2. The Policy Agendas Project: A Review  3. Timing and Sequence in Agenda Setting and Policy Change: A Comparative Study of Lawn Care Pesticide Politics in Canada and the U.S.  4. Legislative Priorities and Public Opinion: Representation of Partisan Agendas in the Canadian House of Commons  5. Policy with or without Parties? A Comparative Analysis of Policy Priorities and Policy Change in Belgium, 1991-2000  6. How Agenda-Setting Attributes Shape Politics: Basic Dilemmas, Problem Attention, and Health Politics  Developments in the U.S. and Denmark  7. Explaining Policy Change: The Impact of the Media, Public Opinion and Political Violence on Urban Budgets in England  8. The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same: A Comparative Analysis of Budget Punctuations  9. Punctuated Equilibrium in the French Budgeting Process  10. The Political Flow of Wisdom: Science Institutions as Policy Venues in The Netherlands  11. Crashing and Creeping: Agenda Setting Dynamics in the European Union