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The following files contain copies of the chapters presented presented in Frank Baumgartner and Bryan Jones' book, Policy Dynamics (2003).

Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Chapter 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
Appendices

Part One:	Theoretical Beginnings

Chapter 1.	Positive and Negative Feedback in Politics
	Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones

View a draft of Chapter 1 (in .pdf format) Note: The published version of this text will include minor copy editing and other editorial changes. For citation purposes, please consult the published text.

Chapter 2.	Studying Policy Dynamics
	Frank R. Baumgartner, Bryan D. Jones, and John Wilkerson

View a draft of Chapter 2 (in .pdf format) Note: The published version of this text will include minor copy editing and other editorial changes. For citation purposes, please consult the published text.

Tables associated with this chapter:

Table 2.1. Summary of Policy Agendas Project Data Sets
Table 2.2. Major Topic Categories
Table 2.3. Health Care Subtopics
Table 2.4. Major Spending Classifications Used by OMB
Table 2.5. Selected Textual Summaries from Four Data Sets
Table 2.6. Types of Information Systems

Part Two:	Multidimensionality and Punctuated Equilibrium in Public Policy

Chapter 3.	The Logic of Positive Feedback: Telecommunications Policy through the Creation, Maintenance, and Destruction of a Regulated Monopoly
	Michael C. MacLeod

Data associated with the figures in this chapter:

Figure 3.1. FCC Cases Involving AT&T and Antitrust Issues
Figure 3.2. Federal District Court Cases Involving AT&T and Antitrust Issues
Figure 3.3. Congressional Hearings on Telecommunications Policy

Chapter 4.	The Multiple and Changing Goals of Immigration Reform: A Comparison of House And Senate Activity, 1947-1993
	Valerie Hunt

Data associated with the figures in this chapter:

Figure 4.1. U.S. Immigration Public Laws
Figure 4.2. Committee Competition of U.S. Immigration Hearings in House and Senate.
Figure 4.3. Comparison of House and Senate Immigration Hearings

Chapter 5.	Multiple Topics, Multiple Targets, Multiple Goals, and Multiple Decision-Makers: Congressional Consideration of Comprehensive Health Care Reform
	John W. Hardin

Data associated with the figures in this chapter:

Figure 5.1. Days of Referral and Nonreferral Hearings on Comprehensive Health Care Reform
Figure 5.2. Cost and Access as Proportion of Total Topics Discussed at Referral and Nonreferral Hearings on Comprehensive Health Care Reform
Figure 5.3. Health Care Providers as Proportion of Total Target Groups Discussed at Referral and Nonreferral Hearings on Comprehensive Health Care Reform
Figure 5.4. Health Care Providers as Proportion of Total Witnesses at Referral and Nonreferral Hearings on Comprehensive Health Care Reform

Additional data referenced in the chapter:

Table - Definitions of Coding Categories (endnote 7)
Figure - Committees Holding Hearings on Comprehensive Health Care Reform (p. 104)
Table - Herfindahl Indexes of Jurisdictional Overlap (p. 104)
Figure - Average Number of Topics at Hearings on Comprehensive Health Care Reform (endnote 14)
Figure - Proportion of Comprehensive Health Care Reform Hearings Focusing on Two or Fewer Topics (endnote 14)
Figure - Proportion of Witness Categories at Hearings on Comprehensive Health Care Reform (endnote 17)

Chapter 6.	The Multiple Goals of Science and Technology Policy
	T. Jens Feeley

Data associated with the figures in this chapter:

Figure 6.1. House and Senate Committees Involved in Science and Technology Policy
Figure 6.2. Changing Topics of Science and Technology Hearings
Figure 6.3. Comparing Political Factors and Budget Authority (BA) for Science and Technology Programs
Figure 6.4. Budget Authority (BA) for Science and Technology Subfunctions

Chapter 7.	The Changing Goals of National Security Policy
	James L. True

Data associated with the figures in this chapter:

Figure 7.1. U.S. and Soviet Defense Spending
Figure 7.2. U.S. Defense vs. International Security Support Spending

Part Three:	The Co-evolution of the Issues and Structures of American Politics

Chapter 8.	The Changing Public Agenda over the Post-War Period
	Jeffery C. Talbert and Matthew Potoski

Data associated with the figures in this chapter:

Figure 8.1. House Staff Levels
Figure 8.2. The Capacity of the House Agenda, Number of Hearings
Figure 8.3. The Complexity of the House Agenda, Entropy Score
Figure 8.4. The Volatility of the House Agenda, Average Length of Hearing

Chapter 9.	Omnibus Legislation: An Institutional Reaction to the Rise of New Issues
	Glen S. Krutz

Data associated with the figures in this chapter:

Figure 9.1. Theoretical Framework
Figure 9.2. Number of Statutes per Congress
Figure 9.3. Number of Omnibus Bills per Congress
Figure 9.4. Omnibus Proportion of Major Bills

Additional analysis:

Click here to view information about Glen Krutz's book, Hitching a Ride: Omnibus Legislation in the U.S. Congress, published by Ohio State University Press.

Chapter 10.	New Issues, New Members: Committee Composition and the Transformation of Issue Agendas on the House Banking and Public Works Committees
	E. Scott Adler

Data associated with the figures in this chapter:

Figure 10.1. Percentage of Hearings by the House Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs Committee Devoted to Urban Issues (Days of Hearings)
Figure 10.2. Hearings on Urban Matters and Constituency Characteristics for Members of the House Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs Committee
Figure 10.3. Percentage of Hearings by the House Public Works and Transportation Committee Devoted to Highway Construction (Number of Days)
Figure 10.4. Percentage of Hearings by the House Public Works and Transportation Committee Devoted to Highways as Opposed to Airline and Motor Carrier Regulation and Subsidies
Figure 10.5. Hearings on Highway Construction and Constituency Characteristics for Members of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee
Figure 10.6. Hearings on Auto, Truck, and Air Transport Regulations and Subsidies and Constituency Characteristics for Members of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee

Additional data:

Click here to view the Congressional District Dataset, maintained by Scott Adler.

Chapter 11.	Using Bills and Hearings to Trace Attention in Congress: Policy Windows in Health Care Legislating
	John D. Wilkerson, T. Jens Feeley, Nicole S. Schiereck, and Christi Sue

Data associated with the figures in this chapter:

Figure 11.1. Number of House and Senate Bills Introduced on the Subject of Catastrophic Health Care Costs
Figure 11.2. Bill and Hearings Activity on the Subject of Catastrophic Health Care Costs
Figure 11.3. Catastrophic Coverage, Long-Term Care Services, and Long-Term Care Insurance Bills
Figure 11.4. The Content of the Senate's Health Policy Agenda (100th Congress)
Figure 11.5. The Content of the Senate's Policy Agenda (100th Congress)

Chapter 12.	The Changing Agendas of Congress and the Supreme Court
	Frank R. Baumgartner and Jamie Gold

Data associated with the figures in this chapter:

Figure 12.1. Total Committee Hearings and Supreme Court Decisions per Congress
Figure 12.2. The Decline of Old Issues in Congress
Figure 12.3. The Rise of New Issues in Congress
Figure 12.4. The Decline of Old Issues in the Supreme Court
Figure 12.5. The Rise of New Issues in the Supreme Court
Figure 12.6. Congress's Attention to Issue Areas
Figure 12.7. Supreme Court's Attention to Issue Areas
Figure 12.8. Spread of Attention Across Issue Areas in the Supreme Court and Congress

Part Four:	Conclusions

Chapter 13.	Punctuations, Ideas, and Public Policy
	Bryan D. Jones and Frank R. Baumgartner

Appendices

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

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