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Rabid Chess and the Radical Resolution of Entrenched Disputes
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equilibrium models have been used to explain stability and change in American public
and foreign policymaking, agenda setting and budgeting,
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British trunk road policy,
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Canadian policy making on nuclear issues,
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U.S. congressional committee jurisdiction
concentrations,
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seminal shifts in the development of the American Constitution,
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or
critical junctures in American presidential history.
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Political scientists have used
evolutionary biology to explain the origins of the state, the formation of authoritarian and
democratic regimes and, most recently, the roots of realist behavior patterns such as
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John Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984); James True,
Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner, "Punctuated Equilibrium Theory: Explaining Stability and Change in American Policymaking" in Paul Sabatier (ed.), Theories of Policy Process (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999); Frank Baumgartner and Bryan Jones, Agendas and Instability in American Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993). Here the authors study issue processing in the fields of nuclear power, pesticides and tobacco policy, urban affairs, drug use, alcohol and child abuse. Bruce Russett, Controlling the Sword: The Democratic Governance of National Security (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990) notices stability in the foreign policy attitudes of leaders, disrupted only by dramatic shocks; Robert Durant and Paul Diehl, “Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policy: Lessons from the U.S. Foreign Policy Arena”, Journal of Public Policy 9, 1989, pp.179-205, argue that elements of the foreign policy process can be understood only by reference to a punctuated equilibrium process.
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Geoffrey Dudley and Jeremy Richardson, "Why Does Policy Change over Time? Adversarial Policy
Communities, Alternative Policy Arenas and British Trunk Roads Policy 1945-1995," Journal of European Public Policy 3, 1996, pp.63-83.
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Michael Howlett, "Issue Attention and Punctuated Equilibria Models Reconsidered: An Empirical
Examination of the Dynamics of Agenda-Setting in Canada", Canadian Journal of Political Science XXX, 1997, no.1.
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John Harin, "Fishing for Constituents, Promoting Certainty: The Dynamics of Committee Jurisdiction
Concentration", Paper presented at MPSA, Chicago, 1996.
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Walter Dean Burnham, "Constitutional Moments and Punctuated Equilibria: A Political Scientist
Confronts Bruce Ackerman's We the People", Yale Law Journal 8, 1999, pp.2237-2277.
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Walter Dean Burnham, "Pattern Recognition and "Doing" Political History: Art, Science or Bootless
Enterprise", in Lawrence Dodd and Calvin Jillson (eds.), The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations (Boulder, C.O.: Westview Press, 1994). Burnham mentions Schlesinger's Paths to the Present and Silbey's "The Thirteen Keys to the Presidency", Journal of American History 78, no.1, as examples of similar historical analysis that make no explicit reference to the punctuated equilibrium model. Sean Q. Kelly, "Punctuated Change in the Era of Divided Government", in Lawrence C. Dodd and Calvin Jillson (ed.), New Perspectives on American Politics (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1994) recognizes five distinct eras of stable American politics punctuated by compressed periods of rapid transformation and subsequent stasis (p.163).
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equilibrium models have been used to explain stability and change in American public
and foreign policymaking, agenda setting and budgeting,
British trunk road policy,
Canadian policy making on nuclear issues,
U.S. congressional committee jurisdiction
concentrations,
seminal shifts in the development of the American Constitution,
critical junctures in American presidential history.
Political scientists have used
evolutionary biology to explain the origins of the state, the formation of authoritarian and
democratic regimes and, most recently, the roots of realist behavior patterns such as
49
John Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984); James True,
Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner, "Punctuated Equilibrium Theory: Explaining Stability and Change in
American Policymaking" in Paul Sabatier (ed.), Theories of Policy Process (Boulder, Colo.: Westview
Press, 1999); Frank Baumgartner and Bryan Jones, Agendas and Instability in American Politics (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1993). Here the authors study issue processing in the fields of nuclear power,
pesticides and tobacco policy, urban affairs, drug use, alcohol and child abuse. Bruce Russett, Controlling
the Sword: The Democratic Governance of National Security (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1990) notices stability in the foreign policy attitudes of leaders, disrupted only by dramatic shocks; Robert
Durant and Paul Diehl, “Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policy: Lessons from the U.S. Foreign Policy
Arena”, Journal of Public Policy 9, 1989, pp.179-205, argue that elements of the foreign policy process can
be understood only by reference to a punctuated equilibrium process.
50
Geoffrey Dudley and Jeremy Richardson, "Why Does Policy Change over Time? Adversarial Policy
Communities, Alternative Policy Arenas and British Trunk Roads Policy 1945-1995," Journal of European
Public Policy 3, 1996, pp.63-83.
51
Michael Howlett, "Issue Attention and Punctuated Equilibria Models Reconsidered: An Empirical
Examination of the Dynamics of Agenda-Setting in Canada", Canadian Journal of Political Science XXX,
1997, no.1.
52
John Harin, "Fishing for Constituents, Promoting Certainty: The Dynamics of Committee Jurisdiction
Concentration", Paper presented at MPSA, Chicago, 1996.
53
Walter Dean Burnham, "Constitutional Moments and Punctuated Equilibria: A Political Scientist
Confronts Bruce Ackerman's We the People", Yale Law Journal 8, 1999, pp.2237-2277.
54
Walter Dean Burnham, "Pattern Recognition and "Doing" Political History: Art, Science or Bootless
Enterprise", in Lawrence Dodd and Calvin Jillson (eds.), The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches
and Interpretations (Boulder, C.O.: Westview Press, 1994). Burnham mentions Schlesinger's Paths to the
Present and Silbey's "The Thirteen Keys to the Presidency", Journal of American History 78, no.1, as
examples of similar historical analysis that make no explicit reference to the punctuated equilibrium model.
Sean Q. Kelly, "Punctuated Change in the Era of Divided Government", in Lawrence C. Dodd and Calvin
Jillson (ed.), New Perspectives on American Politics (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1994) recognizes five
distinct eras of stable American politics punctuated by compressed periods of rapid transformation and
subsequent stasis (p.163).
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