The Policy Agendas Project · the research behind the data

Publications

Publications by members of the project team, drawn from automated bibliographic records. A selection, not a complete list.

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Articles

61 peer-reviewed articles.

2026
Policy Studies Journal

Michelle M. Buehlmann, Misha Melnyk, Mitchell Dolny and others — Problem and Solution Framing in Senate Tweets: Scaling Expert Interpretation With Machine Learning.

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2026
Political Behavior

Matthew T. Pietryka, Amber E. Boydstun, Taylor N. Carlson — Do Political Discussion Partners Share Policy Priorities and Policy Frames?.

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2026
Legislative Studies Quarterly

Sean M. Theriault — The Legislative Effectiveness of Congressional Oversight Reports.

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2026
Legislative Studies Quarterly

Grace A. Moore, David Rapallo, Sean M. Theriault — Congressional Oversight Reports as Legislative Branch Work Product and Research Resource.

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2026
Political Science Quarterly

Stuart Soroka, Christopher B. Wlezien — Parallel Partisan Public Responsiveness to Policy and the News.

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2026
Journal of Public Policy

Christopher B. Wlezien — On policy responsiveness: conditions for effective demand and supply.

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2026
Review of Policy Research

Jonathan Lewallen — Muddle and Match: Narrative Coherence in United States Cybersecurity Policy.

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2026
American Politics Research

Maggie Macdonald, Whitney Hua, Annelise Russell — Rage on the Record: Angry Emotional Appeals in Congress.

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2026
Interest Groups & Advocacy

Maraam A. Dwidar, Herschel F. Thomas — Administrative lobbying and the bureaucratic revolving door.

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2026
Communication and Change

Frank R. Baumgartner, Shaun Bevan, Miklós Sebők — Agenda-setting studies in public policy: Origins, development, and new possibilities for coding in the age of AI.

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2026
Congress & the Presidency

Zachary A. McGee — Farmed Out: Agricultural Lobbying in a Polarized Congress.

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2025
Journal of European Public Policy

Miklós Sebők, Áron Buzogány, Julia Fleischer and others — Crisis-exploitation or fear-mongering? A research agenda for the comparative study of policy crises and illiberal policy frames.

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2025
Public Choice

Christian Cox, Derek A. Epp, Ian Shapiro — The political economy of fiscal responsibility.

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2025
Journal of European Public Policy

Frank R. Baumgartner, Laura Chaqués‐Bonafont — Policymaking in times of crisis.

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2025
Political Science Research and Methods

Steven M. Van Hauwaert, Christopher B. Wlezien, Ryan E. Carlin — What moves (spending) mood? The nature and origins of parallel public preferences.

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2025
Journal of European Public Policy

Samuel Workman, Herschel F. Thomas — The other side of chaos COVID-19, federal spending, and local government volatility.

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2025
Policy Studies Journal

Rebecca Eissler, Paul E. Rutledge — Power play: The agenda dynamics of the United States president, House of Representatives, and Senate.

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2025
Interest Groups & Advocacy

Christine C. Bird, Rachael Houston, Marcy Shieh — Ad-dressing the bench: the impact of interest group advertisements on partisan perceptions of Supreme Court confirmations.

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2025
Journal of European Public Policy

Enrico Borghetto, Luca Manucci, Derek A. Epp — Is the populist Robin Hood a fairy tale? Parliamentary attention to social welfare.

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2025
Policy Studies Journal

Chris J. Koski — Four more years! (of policy process research in a Trump administration).

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2025
Policy Studies Journal

Jonathan Lewallen — Big & rich: A new way to measure attention and participation diversity.

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2025
Policy Studies Journal

Peter Bjerre Mortensen, Brooke Nicole Shannon — Agendas and instability in American local politics: A study of the Austin City Council Agenda 1900–2020.

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2025
Research & Politics

Hans J. G. Hassell, Christopher B. Wlezien — Public opinion and the news: Polls and journalists’ perceptions of issue importance.

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2024
Political Research Quarterly

Željko Poljak, Annelise Russell — All Talk, No Action? Politicians’ Agenda Responsiveness to Citizens’ Engagement on Social Media.

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2024
Policy Studies Journal

Alison W. Craig, Annelise Russell — Information is cheap, but filtering is costly: Congressional investment in reference resources.

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2024
Policy Studies Journal

Mary Anderson, Jonathan Lewallen — Not just the nation's hostess: First Ladies as policy actors.

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2024
Congress & the Presidency

Jonathan Lewallen — Try, Try Again: Repeat Veto Threats in Presidential-Congressional Bargaining.

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2024
Political Research Quarterly

Christine C. Bird, Rachael Houston, Marcy Shieh — From Ads to Action: The Influence of Interest Group Supreme Court Confirmation Advertisements on Political Engagement.

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2024
Policy & Politics

Jonathan Lewallen — The influence of conflict on agenda setting in the US Congress.

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2024
Policy Studies Journal

C.M. John S. Connor, Annelise Russell — Rapid response and uncertain agendas: Senators' response to Dobbs.

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2024
Political Research Quarterly

Jack Maedgen, Christopher B. Wlezien — Institutional Friction and Policy Responsiveness: The Puzzle of Coalitional Fragmentation and Executive-Legislative Balance.

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2024
Policy Sciences

Ehud Segal, Frank R. Baumgartner — How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends.

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2024
Policy Studies Journal

E.J. Fagan, Alexander Furnas, Chris J. Koski and others — The dynamics of issue attention in policy process scholarship.

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2024
Policy Studies Journal

Amnon Cavari, Ákos Máté, Miklós Sebők — Staying on the democratic script? A deep learning analysis of the speechmaking of U.S. presidents.

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2024
Policy Studies Journal

Jonathan Lewallen — The decline of incrementalism in U.S. lawmaking.

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2024
Mass Communication & Society

Ayla Oden, Annelise Russell, Nichole M. Bauer — Gendered Agenda-Building: How Female Candidates Communicate Heterogeneous Issue Agendas.

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2024
Politics & Policy

Jonathan Lewallen — Views on the hill: Disagreement and effectiveness in U.S. Senate agenda setting.

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2024
Policy Studies Journal

Jonathan Lewallen, Ju Yeon Park, Sean M. Theriault — The politics of problems versus solutions: Policymaking and grandstanding in congressional hearings.

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2024
Policy & Politics

Samuel Workman, Scott E. Robinson, Tracey Bark — Organisation, information processing, and policy change in US federal bureaucracies.

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2024
Intersections

Miklós Sebők, Csaba Molnár, Anna Takács — Levelling up quantitative legislative studies on Central-Eastern Europe:.

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2023
Theories of the Policy Process (5th ed.)
Austin

Baumgartner, Frank R., Bryan D. Jones, and Peter B. Mortensen — “Punctuated Equilibrium Theory: Explaining Stability and Change in Public Policymaking.”

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2023
State Politics & Policy Quarterly

Alison W. Craig — Governing Through Gridlock: Bill Composition under Divided Government.

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2023
Review of Policy Research

Jonathan Lewallen — Expertise for emerging technology: Information, prestige, and the Office of Technology Assessment.

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2023
International Political Science Review

Miklós Sebők, Sven‐Oliver Proksch, Christian Rauh and others — Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article.

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2023
Journal of Historical Political Economy

E.J. Fagan, Bryan D. Jones, Brooke Nicole Shannon — Linking Party and Congressional Agendas: New Datasets on Policymaking During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

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2023
Policy Studies Journal

E.J. Fagan, Alexander Furnas — Lobbying responsiveness to congressional policy agendas.

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2023
Political Research Quarterly

Chris Cassella, E.J. Fagan, Sean M. Theriault — Partisan Asymmetries in Earmark Representation.

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2023
Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties

Ann‐Kristin Kölln, Christopher B. Wlezien — Measuring public preferences for government spending under constraints: a conjoint-analytic approach.

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2022
Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy

E.J. Fagan — Elite Polarization and Partisan Think Tanks.

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2022
Congress & the Presidency

Tanya Gardner, Annelise Russell — Pandemic Messaging: Congressional Communication and the Mechanisms of Polarizing Rhetoric.

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2022
American Politics Research

Sarah A. Smith, Annelise Russell — Different Chambers, Divergent Rhetoric: Institutional Differences and Policy Representation on Social Media.

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2022
American Politics Research

Christine C. Bird, Zachary A. McGee — Going Nuclear: Federalist Society Affiliated Judicial Nominees’ Prospects and a New Era of Confirmation Politics 1.

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2022
Acta Politica

Rebecca Eissler, Christoffer Green‐Pedersen, Matt W. Loftis and others — The partisan context of parliamentary questions: a study of opposition behavior in the danish parliament.

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2022
Political Research Quarterly

Derek A. Epp, Herschel F. Thomas — When Bad News Becomes Routine: Slowly-Developing Problems Moderate Government Responsiveness.

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2022
Policy Studies Journal

E.J. Fagan — Political institutions, punctuated equilibrium theory, and policy disasters.

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2022
American Politics Research

Annelise Russell, Rebecca Eissler — Conditional Presidential Priorities: Audience-Driven Agenda Setting.

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2022
Journal of Public Policy

Miklós Sebők, Ágnes M. Balázs, Csaba Molnár — Punctuated equilibrium and progressive friction in socialist autocracy, democracy and hybrid regimes.

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2022
Statisztikai Szemle

Péter Gelányi, Miklós Sebők, Orsolya Ring — A topikmodellezés lehetőségei és korlátai egy törvénykorpusz példáján.

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2021
Quality & Quantity

Miklós Sebők, Zoltán Kacsuk, Ákos Máté — The (real) need for a human touch: testing a human–machine hybrid topic classification workflow on a New York Times corpus.

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2012
Policy Studies Journal
Austin

Jones, Bryan D., and Frank R. Baumgartner — “From There to Here: Punctuated Equilibrium to the General Punctuation Thesis to a Theory of Government Information Processing.”

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2003
Journal of Public Policy
Syracuse

Pralle, Sarah B. — “Venue Shopping, Political Strategy, and Policy Change: The Internationalization of Canadian Forest Advocacy.”

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