Background
Jones, Bryan Davidson was born on August 6, 1944 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. Son of Charles Glenn and M. Katherine (Davidson) Jones.
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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, and Public Policy: 1st (First) Edition
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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, and Public Policy (American Politics & Political Economy (Paperback))
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Most models of political decision-making maintain that individual preferences remain relatively constant. Why, then, are there often sudden abrupt changes in public opinion on political issues? Or total reversals by politicians on specific issues? Bryan D. Jones answers these questions by innovatively connecting insights from cognitive science and rational choice theory to political life. Individuals and political systems alike, Jones argues, tend to be attentive to only one issue at a time. Using numerous examples from elections, public opinion polls, congressional deliberations, and of bureaucratic decision-making, he shows how shifting attentiveness can and does alter choices and political outcomes—even when underlying preferences remain relatively fixed. An individual, for example, may initially decide to vote for a candidate because of her stand on spending but change his vote when he learns of her position on abortion, never really balancing the two options.
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The Sustaining Hand: Community Leadership and Corporate Power Second Edition, Revised (Studies in Government and Public Policy) (Studies in Government & Public Policy)
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As the recent shake-up at GM underscores, the new global economy has widened the cracks and stresses in the American auto industry. But, as this new edition of the highly regarded Sustaining Hand reminds us, the auto industry remains a central if volatile player in American urban politics. In this significantly revised update, Bryan Jones and Lynn Bachelor have extended and refined their analysis of Detroit-area automakers and political leaders negotiating the selection of new factory sites (and thus the addition of thousands of jobs to the local economy). Their thorough revision develops a crucial new concept solution sets updates all plant location decisions reported in the first edition, and adds an instructive new case study the Chrysler Jefferson Avenue plant in Detroit. This book seeks to uncover the linkages between business leaders(motivated by profit) and political decision makers (motivated by electoral gain) by examining the responses of public officials in three Michigan "auto cities" Detroit, Flint, and Pontiac to plant-location choices made by General Motors and Chrysler. Throughout, the authors focus on three issues-the relationship between the local industrial economy and the local political system, the structure of urban politics, and the degree of independence of political decision makers in urban affairs. As Jones and Bachelor show, urban regimes, in their efforts to shore up sagging economies, develop characteristic solution-sets that are applied almost routinely to superficially similar situations. In fact, they contend, it's rare for a regime to start with a problem and search for a policy solution. Instead, through a pattern of interactions among politicians, business executives, labor unions, and other interested parties, a "package" of problem-definitions and preferred solutions emerges. But if applied indiscriminately, these solutions can become dysfunctional, which in turn may attract new participants to the policy process and ultimately alter the regime's character. "An excellent case analysis of urban political economy. . . interesting, sophisticated, well written. It is sure to be widely discussed." Clarence N. Stone, author of Urban Policy and Politics in a Bureaucratic Age and Economic Growth and Neighborhood Discontent. "This new version makes significant new contributions to both the urban politics and public policy literatures, and indeed marries them in an utterly unique way. The concept of solution sets is brilliant, and I assume that it will be much discussed and utilized in the urban literature." Dennis Judd, author of The Politics of American Cities: Private Power and Public Policy. Praise for the first edition: "An excellent book. The authors demonstrate a considerable capacity for theoretical innovation and a rare appreciation of the detail and complexity of local economic development. This book is a model for those who would like to situate the local economic development process in a more general analytical framework." Urban Studies "A provocative addition to the literature" Choice
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Agendas and Instability in American Politics (American Politics and Political Economy Series) by Baumgartner Frank R. Jones Bryan D. (1993-04-01) Hardcover
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Service delivery in the city: Citizen demand and bureaucratic rules
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Agendas and Instability in American Politics, Second Edition (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
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When Agendas and Instability in American Politics appeared fifteen years ago, offering a profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the Journal of Politics predicted that it would “become a landmark study of public policy making and American politics.” That prediction proved true and, in this long-awaited second edition, Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner refine their influential argument and expand it to illuminate the workings of democracies beyond the United States. The authors retain all the substance of their contention that short-term, single-issue analyses cast public policy too narrowly as the result of cozy and dependable arrangements among politicians, interest groups, and the media. Jones and Baumgartner provide a different interpretation by taking the long view of several issues—including nuclear energy, urban affairs, smoking, and auto safety—to demonstrate that bursts of rapid, unpredictable policy change punctuate the patterns of stability more frequently associated with government. Featuring a new introduction and two additional chapters, this updated edition ensures that their findings will remain a touchstone of policy studies for many years to come.
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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, And Public Policy (American Politics & Political Economy (Paperback)) by Bryan D. Jones (1995-03-15)
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Agendas and Instability in American Politics (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
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In this innovative account of the way policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda—the first detailed study of so many issues over an extended period—Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones show that rapid change not only can but does happen in the hidebound institutions of government. Short-term, single-issue analyses of public policy, the authors contend, give a narrow and distorted view of public policy as the result of a cozy arrangement between politicians, interest groups, and the media. Baumgartner and Jones upset these notions by focusing on several issues—including civilian nuclear power, urban affairs, smoking, and auto safety—over a much longer period of time to reveal patterns of stability alternating with bursts of rapid, unpredictable change. A welcome corrective to conventional political wisdom, Agendas and Instability revises our understanding of the dynamics of agenda-setting and clarifies a subject at the very center of the study of American politics.
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Agendas and Instability in American Politics (American Politics and Political Economy Series) by Frank R. Baumgartner (1993-04-01)
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Bryan Davidson Jones
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, U. Alabama, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, 1970.
Career
Assistant professor, U. Houston, 1970-1972;
from assistant professor to professor political science, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1972-1985;
department chairman, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1981-1985;
professor political science, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1985-1995;
head department political science, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1985-1992;
Puryear professor political science, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1992-1996;
director program in American politics, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1995-1996;
distinguished professor, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1995-1996;
director American Politics Program, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1995-1996;
professor political science, U. Washington, Seattle, since 1996. Visiting associate professor political science and urban affairs Northwestern University, 1978-1979. Book reviewer American Pol.
Science Review, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Urban Resources, Political Geography, Social Science Quarterly, Urban Studies, Journal of Politics, Public Administration Review, Michigan Academician. Presented papersAm. Association Geographers, 1985, American Political Science Association, since 1975, ASPA, 1976, 94, Midwest Political Science Association, since 1974, National Conference on Needs Assessment in Health and Human Superior vena cava syndrome, 1978, N.E. Political Science Association, 1973, Operations Research Society American, 1979. Nominator MacArthur Fellows Program, 1989-1990;external evaluator academic programs department political science U. Alabama, 1989, department political science U. Arizona, 1992.
Evaluator various divisions National Science Foundation. Evaluator various jours including American Political Science Review, American Journal Polit.Sci., American Journal Public Administration, American Politics Quarterly, Administration and Society, Journal of Politics, and more. Evaluator U. Alabama Press, U. Press Kansas, U. Pittsburgh Press, State University of New York Press, U. North Carolina Press, Columbia University Press, Little Brown, Harper Collins, Harper and Row, Goodyear, West Public, Longman, Pergamon, Sage Publications.
Tenure and promotion evaluator Brown U., Rice U., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, U. Vermont, U. Kansas, GeorgeWashington U., Catholic U., Hamilton College, U. Hull, England, U. Liverpool, England, and more. Official representative Inter-University Consortium for Political andSocial Research, 1975-1978. Member Executive Board Michigan Conference Political Scientists,1972-1974, 84-85.
Expert witness Michigan Insurance Commissioners Office, 1977, Michigan Public Svc. Commission, 1978; member editorial boards American Journal Pol. Science, Jour.of Politics, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Economics Development Quarterly, State and Local Government Review.
Book reviewer, presenter in field.
Achievements
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Agendas and Instability in American Politics, Second Edition (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
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Agendas and Instability in American Politics (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
( In this innovative account of the way policy issues ris...)
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The Sustaining Hand: Community Leadership and Corporate Power Second Edition, Revised (Studies in Government and Public Policy) (Studies in Government & Public Policy)
(As the recent shake-up at GM underscores, the new global ...)
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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, and Public Policy (American Politics & Political Economy (Paperback))
( Most models of political decision-making maintain that ...)
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Agendas and Instability in American Politics (American Politics and Political Economy Series) by Baumgartner Frank R. Jones Bryan D. (1993-04-01) Hardcover
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
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Service delivery in the city: Citizen demand and bureaucratic rules
(Book by Jones, Bryan D)
- Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, and Publ
- Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, and Public Policy: 1st (First) Edition
- Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, And Public Policy (American Politics & Political Economy (Paperback)) by Bryan D. Jones (1995-03-15)
- Agendas and Instability in American Politics (American Politics and Political Economy Series) by Frank R. Baumgartner (1993-04-01)
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Agendas and Instability in American Politics, Second Edition (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
Membership
Cons. State of New York Organized Crime Task Force, Elderly Care Research Center, Wayne State University, Bureau of Substance Abuse, Detroit Department Health, Detroit Free Press, Southfield (Michigan) Housing Information Center. Member ASPA, American Political Science Association (president urban politics section 1989-1990,chairman awards section 1988, 94), Midwest Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association, S.W. Political Science Association Beta Kappa. M C.
Connections
Married Diane Louise Carlson, August 31, 1968. 1 child, Laura Elizabeth.
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American