Books

• Tax Cut Delusions: Flawed Economic Ideas and the Decline of Good Government in America [link]
  In this working manuscript, Bryan Jones and Walter Williams explore how and why bad ideas persist in the face of contradictory information in the context of economic policy in the U.S.
• The Politics of Attention How Government Prioritizes Problems [link]
  Jones and Baumgartner's newest release, published in 2005. Utilizing an information processing model, the authors analyze attention allocation in the post-World War II period.
• Agendas & Instability [link] These files contain the data and charts used in Agendas and Instability in American Politics by Frank Baumgartner and Bryan Jones (University of Chicago Press, 1993). These time series data are in Microsoft Excel 5.0/97 format, with each file consisting of two spreadsheets. The first is a reproduction of the chart presented in the book. The second is the data that was used to prepare the chart. The names of the files correspond to the numbers of the figure in the book.
• Policy Dynamics [link] edited by Frank Baumgartner and Bryan Jones, published in 2003. The chapters in this volume detail the many facets of public policy and policymaking dynamics. Many of these chapters utilize data from the Policy Agendas Project.