Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-330) and index
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Theoretical beginnings -- Punctuated equilibria in politics -- Policy images and institutional venues -- Studying agenda change -- Tracing policy change in America -- The construction and collapse of a policy monopoly -- Two models of issue expansion -- The dynamics of media attention -- Cities as a national political problem -- Connecting solutions to problems: three valence issues -- Structural and contextual change in politics -- Interest groups and agenda setting -- Congress as a jurisdictional battlefield -- Federalism as a system of policy venues -- Governing through institutional disruption -- Agendas and instability, fifteen years later -- Policy subsystems, punctuated equilibrium, and theories of policy change -- Punctuated equilibrium and disruptive dynamics