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Agendas and Instability in American Politics

By: Frank R. Baumgartner,Bryan D. Jones

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Agendas and Instability in American Politics

By: Frank R. Baumgartner,Bryan D. Jones

In this innovative account of the way policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda—the first detailed study of so many issues over an extended period—Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones show that rapid change not only can but does happen in the hidebound institutions of government. Short-term, single-issue analyses of public policy, the authors contend, give a narrow and distorted view of public policy as the result of a cozy arrangement between politicians, interest groups, and the media. Baumgartner and Jones upset these notions by focusing on several issues—including civilian nuclear power, urban affairs, smoking, and auto safety—over a much longer period of time to reveal patterns of stability alternating with bursts of rapid, unpredictable change. A welcome corrective to conventional political wisdom, Agendas and Instability revises our understanding of the dynamics of agenda-setting and clarifies a subject at the very center of the study of American politics.

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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics

Attention, Choice, and Public Policy

By: Bryan D. Jones

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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics

Attention, Choice, and Public Policy

By: Bryan D. Jones

Why are there often sudden abrupt changes in public opinion on political issues? Or total reversals in congressional support for specific legislation? Jones aims to answer these questions by connecting insights from cognitive science and rational-choice theory to political life.

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Agendas and Instability in American Politics

By: Frank R. Baumgartner,Bryan D. Jones

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Agendas and Instability in American Politics

By: Frank R. Baumgartner,Bryan D. Jones

When Agendas and Instability in American Politics appeared fifteen years ago, offering a profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the Journal of Politics predicted that it would “become a landmark study of public policy making and American politics.” That prediction proved true and, in this long-awaited second edition, Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner refine their influential argument and expand it to illuminate the workings of democracies beyond the United States. The authors retain all the substance of their contention that short-term, single-issue analyses cast public policy too narrowly as the result of cozy and dependable arrangements among politicians, interest groups, and the media. Jones and Baumgartner provide a different interpretation by taking the long view of several issues—including nuclear energy, urban affairs, smoking, and auto safety—to demonstrate that bursts of rapid, unpredictable policy change punctuate the patterns of stability more frequently associated with government. Featuring a new introduction and two additional chapters, this updated edition ensures that their findings will remain a touchstone of policy studies for many years to come.

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The Politics of Attention

How Government Prioritizes Problems

By: Bryan D. Jones,Frank R. Baumgartner

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The Politics of Attention

How Government Prioritizes Problems

By: Bryan D. Jones,Frank R. Baumgartner

On any given day, policymakers are required to address a multitude of problems and make decisions about a variety of issues, from the economy and education to health care and defense. This has been true for years, but until now no studies have been conducted on how politicians manage the flood of information from a wide range of sources. How do they interpret and respond to such inundation? Which issues do they pay attention to and why? Bryan D. Jones and Frank R. Baumgartner answer these questions on decision-making processes and prioritization in The Politics of Attention. Analyzing fifty years of data, Jones and Baumgartner's book is the first study of American politics based on a new information-processing perspective. The authors bring together the allocation of attention and the operation of governing institutions into a single model that traces public policies, public and media attention to them, and governmental decisions across multiple institutions. The Politics of Attention offers a groundbreaking approach to American politics based on the responses of policymakers to the flow of information. It asks how the system solves, or fails to solve, problems rather than looking to how individual preferences are realized through political action.

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The New American Politics

Reflections On Political Change And The Clinton Administration

By: Bryan D Jones

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The New American Politics

Reflections On Political Change And The Clinton Administration

By: Bryan D Jones

Was 1992 a realigning election? Did the midterm elections of 1994 realign the realignment? Will 1996 carry the United States forward on yet another changed trajectory? In this volume of original essays, leading political scientists examine key components of the American agenda and assess the current administration's position in light of historical precedents and future trends. Each conclusion is unique, born of a combination of the empirical record and its interpretation, but essays by Bryan Jones and Larry Dodd help to put the wide-ranging views represented here in long-term perspective.

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Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems

A Comparative Approach

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Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems

A Comparative Approach

What will gain the system’s attention? “Explores the dynamics of a broad range of policy issues in different countries . . . an important scholarly contribution.” —Political Studies Review Before making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political science holds that the amount of attention devoted by the various actors within a political system to issues like immigration, health care, and the economy can inform our understanding of its basic patterns and processes. While there has been considerable attention to how political systems process issues in the United States, Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Stefaan Walgrave demonstrate the broader applicability of this approach by extending it to other countries and their political systems. This book brings together essays on eleven countries and two broad themes. Contributors to the first section analyze the extent to which party and electoral changes and shifts in the partisan composition of government have led—or not led—to policy changes in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, and France. The second section turns the focus on changing institutional structures in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain, and Canada, including the German reunification and the collapse of the Italian party system. Together, the essays make clear the efficacy of the agenda-setting approach for understanding not only how policies evolve, but also how political systems function.

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Politics and the Architecture of Choice

Bounded Rationality and Governance

By: Bryan D. Jones

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Politics and the Architecture of Choice

Bounded Rationality and Governance

By: Bryan D. Jones

Politics and the Architecture of Choice draws on work in political science, economics, cognitive science, and psychology to offer an innovative theory of how people and organizations adapt to change and why these adaptations don't always work. Our decision-making capabilities, Jones argues, are both rational and adaptive. But because our rationality is bounded and our adaptability limited, our actions are not based simply on objective information from our environments. Instead, we overemphasize some factors and neglect others, and our inherited limitations—such as short-term memory capacity—all act to affect our judgment. Jones shows how we compensate for and replicate these limitations in groups by linking the behavioral foundations of human nature to the operation of large-scale organizations in modern society. Situating his argument within the current debate over the rational choice model of human behavior, Jones argues that we should begin with rationality as a standard and then study the uniquely human ways in which we deviate from it.

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The Great Broadening

How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics

By: Bryan D. Jones,Sean M. Theriault,Michelle Whyman

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The Great Broadening

How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics

By: Bryan D. Jones,Sean M. Theriault,Michelle Whyman

Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. During this period, the federal government extended its scope into policy arenas previously left to civil society or state and local governments. With The Great Broadening, Bryan D. Jones, Sean M. Theriault, and Michelle Whyman examine in detail the causes, internal dynamics, and consequences of this extended burst of activity. They argue that the broadening of government responsibilities into new policy areas such as health care, civil rights, and gender issues and the increasing depth of existing government programs explain many of the changes in America politics since the 1970s. Increasing government attention to particular issues was motivated by activist groups. In turn, the beneficiaries of the government policies that resulted became supporters of the government’s activity, leading to the broad acceptance of its role. This broadening and deepening of government, however, produced a reaction as groups critical of its activities organized to resist and roll back its growth.

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The Politics of Information

Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America

By: Frank R. Baumgartner,Bryan D. Jones

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The Politics of Information

Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America

By: Frank R. Baumgartner,Bryan D. Jones

How does the government decide what’s a problem and what isn’t? And what are the consequences of that process? Like individuals, Congress is subject to the “paradox of search.” If policy makers don’t look for problems, they won’t find those that need to be addressed. But if they carry out a thorough search, they will almost certainly find new problems—and with the definition of each new problem comes the possibility of creating a government program to address it. With The Politics of Attention, leading policy scholars Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones demonstrated the central role attention plays in how governments prioritize problems. Now, with The Politics of Information, they turn the focus to the problem-detection process itself, showing how the growth or contraction of government is closely related to how it searches for information and how, as an organization, it analyzes its findings. Better search processes that incorporate more diverse viewpoints lead to more intensive policymaking activity. Similarly, limiting search processes leads to declines in policy making. At the same time, the authors find little evidence that the factors usually thought to be responsible for government expansion—partisan control, changes in presidential leadership, and shifts in public opinion—can be systematically related to the patterns they observe. Drawing on data tracing the course of American public policy since World War II, Baumgartner and Jones once again deepen our understanding of the dynamics of American policy making.

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Politics and the Architecture of Choice

Bounded Rationality and Governance

By: Bryan D. Jones

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Bounded Rationality and Governance

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The Politics of Bad Ideas

The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America

By: Bryan Jones,Walter Williams

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The Politics of Bad Ideas

The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America

By: Bryan Jones,Walter Williams

This highly anticipated addition to the "Great Questions in Politics" series offers a provocative argument about the persistence of bad ideas in shaping American economic policy. The result of a collaboration between political scientist Bryan D. Jones and economist Walter Williams, The Politics of Bad Ideas is indispensable reading for any study of American government, public policy, or economic and budgetary analysis. The Politics of Bad Ideas examines why, over the last quarter century, bad economic ideas -- such as cutting taxes without cutting spending -- have become so influential in shaping government policies. Using in-depth research and trenchant political and economic analysis, the book explores why those bad ideas continue to survive despite overwhelming evidence that they in fact cause damage to the federal government's long-term fiscal stability and the American economy.

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Wilms Tumor: Clinical and Molecular Characterization

By: Max J. Coppes,Christine E. Campbell,Bryan Williams

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Wilms Tumor: Clinical and Molecular Characterization

By: Max J. Coppes,Christine E. Campbell,Bryan Williams

WT1 is a DNA Binding Protein Containing Four C2H2 Zinc Fingers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 The DNA Binding Domain ofWT1 ··············································~··· 90 WT1 Inhibits Tag and SV40 Origin Dependent Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 WT1 is an Unusual C2H2 Zinc Finger Protein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 WT1 is a Transcriptional Regulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Possible Downstream Targets ofWT1 Transcriptional Regulation . . . 103 Protein-Protein Interactions Involving WT1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Other Factors that May Contribute to or Modify the Cellular Function ofWT1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 WT1 and Apoptosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 7. Naturally Occurring Mutations in the WTJ Gene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 WTI Mutations in Wilms Tumor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Analysis of WTI Mutations in Tumors Other than Wilms Tumor . . . 122 Constitutional WTI Mutations and the Denys-Drash Syndrome . . . . . . 125 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 8. Other Loci Implicated in Wtlms Tumor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Nephrogenic Rests, WTI Mutations and Wilms Tumor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Undetectable WTI Mutations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Wilms Tumor and WITI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Loss of Heterozygosity for Chromosome 1 p and 16q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Wilms Tumor and Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Wilms Tumor and Perlman Syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Imprinting, IGF/l, HI9 and Wilms Tumor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Wilms Tumor and Li-F raumeni Syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Familial Wilms Tumor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Wilms Tumor and Other Disease Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 7 =====PREFACE===== ilms tumor is a common pediatric neoplasm of the kidney which has been W considered a paradigm for understanding the etiology of embryonal tu mors.

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Rules for War

Procedural Choice in the US House of Representatives

By: Bryan W. Marshall

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Rules for War

Procedural Choice in the US House of Representatives

By: Bryan W. Marshall

Originally published in 2005. The Rules Committee in the US House of Representatives is one of the most powerful institutions in Congress. It takes centre stage in determining procedures that will shape the bills enacted by the House. Its central role gives it broad influence over national policy on issues from Social Security and taxes to civil rights and the federal deficit. This study develops a principal-agent theory to analyze how changes in procedures and the role of the House Rules Committee have affected policy making in Congress over the past three decades. The book's main themes relate to a broader literature that explains the strengthening of party leadership organizations within Congress and their significance for understanding congressional politics. The volume is ideally suited for courses on the US Congress and American Politics more generally.

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The Great Broadening

How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics

By: Bryan D. Jones,Sean M. Theriault,Michelle Whyman

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How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics

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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics

Attention, Choice, and Public Policy

By: Bryan D. Jones

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The Politics of Bad Ideas

The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America

By: Bryan Jones,Walter Williams

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Agendas and Instability in American Politics

Agendas and Instability in American Politics

Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics

Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics

Agendas and Instability in American Politics

Agendas and Instability in American Politics

The Politics of Attention

The Politics of Attention

The New American Politics

The New American Politics

Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems

Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems

Politics and the Architecture of Choice

Politics and the Architecture of Choice

The Great Broadening

The Great Broadening

The Politics of Information

The Politics of Information

Politics and the Architecture of Choice

Politics and the Architecture of Choice

The Politics of Bad Ideas

The Politics of Bad Ideas

Wilms Tumor: Clinical and Molecular Characterization

Wilms Tumor: Clinical and Molecular Characterization

Rules for War

Rules for War

The Great Broadening

The Great Broadening

Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics

Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics

The Politics of Bad Ideas

The Politics of Bad Ideas

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