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Affiliated FacultyBryan D. Jones (PhD, University of Texas)(206) 543-6493 Professor of Political Science, and Director, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, at the University of Washington. Professor Jones studies American public policy process at both the national and local levels. His recent research has concentrated on the linkage between characteristics of individual decision-making, on the one hand, and agenda-setting processes in American national political institutions, on the other. With Frank Baumgartner, he is currently directing the Policy Agendas Project, a National Science Foundation funded project designed to assess changes in the American national policy agenda since the Second World War quantitatively. His recent books include Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics (Chicago, 1994) and Agendas and Instability in American Politics (co-authored with Frank Baumgartner; Chicago, 1993). His other books include The Sustaining Hand (co-authored with Lynn Bachelor; Kansas, 1986, 1993); Governing Buildings and Building Government (Alabama, 1985); Governing Urban America (Little, Brown, 1983); and Service Delivery in the City (Longman, 1980). Professor Jones has edited two books, The New American Politics (Westview, 1995), and Leadership and Politics (Kansas, 1989). He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, The Urban Affairs Quarterly, the Economic Development Quarterly, and State and Local Government Review. Professor Jones is formerly a distinguished professor of political science and Puryear Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M. His program foci for the Center are the Policy Agendas Project and Civic Decision-making. |
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