The great broadening : how the vast expansion of the policy-making agenda transformed American politics / Bryan D. Jones, Sean M. Theriault, Michelle C. Whyman.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-303)and index.
Contents:
The great broadening -- The internal dynamics of the great broadening -- Crossing the legitimacy barrier -- Arcs and plateaus -- Dynamics of the great broadening -- Causes of the great broadening -- Causes of the great broadening: conventional explanations -- Causes of the great broadening: the role of social movements -- Feedback politics -- Consequences of the great broadening -- Transformation of us law: broadening and then thickening -- The administrative state and its legislative oversight -- Polarization in Congress: a macro-level analysis -- Appendix: Granger causality -- Microstory of polarization in Congress -- The interest-group system -- Politics of conservative reaction -- Extreme events, feedback policy-making, and American politics.
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