No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
A Discussion of Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones' The Politics of Information: Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America
Review products
The Politics of Information: Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America. By Baumgartner Frank R. and Jones Bryan D.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2015. 264p. $85.00 cloth, $27.50 paper.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 June 2016
Abstract
In a number of important articles and books—most notably Agendas and Instability in American Politics (1993), The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems (2005)—Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones have pioneered a distinctive approach to the study of agenda setting that has shaped research in both the U.S. politics and comparative politics subfields. The Politics of Information: Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America further expands on the theme of the political determinants, and implications, of “the organization and prioritization of information.” And so we have invited a number of political scientists from a range of subfields to comment on the book and on the research agenda more generally.
- Type
- Review Symposium: Agenda Setting and the Politics of Information
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © American Political Science Association 2016
References
Adler, E. Scott and Wilkerson, John D.. 2012. Congress and the politics of problem solving. New York: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Detrick, Martha and Quirk, Paul J., 1985. The Politics of Deregulation. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution.Google Scholar
Gerber, Alan S. and Patashnik, Eric M., editors. (2006). Promoting the general welfare: new perspectives on government performance. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.Google Scholar
Gerber, Alan S. and Patashnik, Eric M.. (2011). “The Politicization of Evidence-Based Medicine: The Limits of Pragmatic Problem Solving in an Era of Polarization.”
California Journal of Politics and Policy, 3(4).Google Scholar
Gerber, Alan S., Patashnik, Eric M., and Dowling, Conor M.. Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine in the United States, book manuscript, n.d.Google Scholar
Gilens, Martin. 2012. Affluence and influence: Economic inequality and political power in America. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Lee, Frances E. 2009. Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moe, Terry M. 2015. “Vested Interests and Political Institutions.”
Political Science Quarterly, 130(2).Google Scholar
Patashnik, Eric M. 2008. Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Patashnik, Eric M. and Peck, Justin. 2016. “Can Congress Perform Policy Analysis? The Politics of Problem Solving on Capitol Hill,” in Gerber, Alan and Schickler, Eric, eds., Governing in a Polarized Age: Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America.
New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.Google Scholar
Pierson, Paul. 1994. Dismantling the welfare state?: Reagan, Thatcher and the politics of retrenchment. New York: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar