The Policy Agenda

Co-hosts Brooke and Laura talk to Dr. Brandon Archuleta about his new book, Twenty Years of Service: The Politics of Military Pension Policy and the Long Road to Reform. Editor's note: For posterity, we mention that the Valley Forge Winter was actually 1777-1778, not 1776 to 1777. This episode of The Policy Agenda was mixed and mastered by Max Edwards.

Brooke and Zac talk with our co-host E.J. Fagan about his dissertation, "Information Wars." This episode of The Policy Agenda was mixed and mastered by Jacob Weiss and Sofia Salter.

EJ and Brooke talk with Alexander Hertel-Fernandez about his new book, State Capture: How Conservative Activists, Big Business, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States -- and the Nation.   This episode of The Policy Agenda was mixed and mastered by Noah Keller.

Brooke talks with Dr. Peter Bjerre Mortensen from the University of Aarhus about two recent articles, "The Bureaucracy and the Public Agenda," co-authored with Martin Baekgaard and Henrik Bech Seeberg, and "Do Local Policy Agendas Respond to Local Problems?" co-authored with Henrik Bech Seeberg. Dr. Mortensen's recommendations for political science readers are both classics: The Semi-sovereign People by E.E. Schattschneider, and The Strategy of Conflict by Peter Schelling.

Brooke, Christine, and EJ talk with Frank Baumgartner about his new book (co-authored with Derek Epp and Kelsey Shoub) Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race.

Ross Buchanan joins the podcast to talk about how both democracies and authoritarian regimes respond to public demand for policy change. His project examines air pollution policy in China and the United States. Working paper here.

Reporting from the field in Denmark, Brooke Shannon talks with Christopher Green-Pedersen about his new book, The Reshaping of Western European Politics.

We talk with Samuel Workman and Deven Carlson on their new project on how organizations use a push and pull process to influence the provision and use of research in education policy. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation, #1827494.

E.J. is joined by special guest host Bryan Jones, director of the Policy Agendas Project. They interview three undergraduate J.J. Pickle Research Fellows, Krysta Kilinski, Matt Maldonado, and Chloe Slusher, about their research and experience working with the Policy Agendas Project. Krysta examines if polarization is caused by the replacement of old members of Congress, or adaptation by existing members. Matt examines how problems first appear in party platforms before moving to State of the Union addresses and Congressional hearings. Chloe examines how the Supreme Court's agenda reacted to the build-up of the federal bureaucracy. 

We talk with Daniel Sledge and Herschel Thomas of the University of Texas at Arlington on their new article, "From Disaster Response to Community Recovery: Nongovernmental Entities, Government, and Public Health."

We talk with Alison W. Craig, Assistant Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, about her new article with co-authors Janet Box‐Steffensmeier and Dino P. Christenson, "Cue-Taking in Congress: Interest Group Signals from Dear Colleague Letters", in the American Journal of Political Science.

We talk to Kristina Miler of the University of Maryland about her new book: Poor Representation: Congress and the Politics of Poverty in the United States.

We talk with Periloux Peay on multiple referrals, the representation of minority interests, and the Congressional Black Caucus. Peay is a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma. The working papers that we discuss are found here: Cross-Cutting Legislation and The Impact of Committee Reform on the Pursuit of Black Interests in the House of Representatives Un-Equal Opportunity Lawmaking?: Agenda Denial and The Disproportionate Filtering of Minority Issues in the House of Representatives

E.J. Fagan, Christine Bird, and Brooke Shannon interview Professor Suzanne Mettler of Cornell University on her new book, The Government-Citizen Disconnect. They talk about policy feedback, policy design, and U.S. social policy.