Preface

PART ONE: THEORETICAL BEGINNINGS

Positive and Negative Feedback in Politics

Studying Policy Dynamics

PART TWO: MULTIDIMENSIONALITY AND PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM IN PUBLIC POLICY

The Logic of Positive Feedback: Telecommunications Policy through the Creation, Maintenance, and Destruction of a Regulated Monopoly

The Multiple and Changing Goals of Immigration Reform: A Comparison of House and Senate Activity, 1947-1993

Multiple Topics, Multiple Targets, Multiple Goals, and Multiple Decision Makers: Congressional Consideration of Comprehensive Health Care Reform

The Multiple Goals of Science and Technology Policy

The Changing Focus of National Security Policy

PART THREE: THE COEVOLUTION OF THE ISSUES AND STRUCTURES OF AMERICAN POLITICS

The Changing Public Agenda over the Postwar Period

Omnibus Legislation: An Institutional Reaction to the Rise of New Issues

New Issues, New Members: Committee Composition and the Transformation of Issue Agendas on the House Banking and Public Works Committees

Using Bills and Hearings to Trace Attention in Congress: Policy Windows in Health Care Legislating

The Changing Agendas of Congress and the Supreme Court

PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS

Punctuations, Ideas, and Public Policy

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

References

Index