Exhibit 1224 ยท Author's book proposal
The Politics of Disequilibrium: Agendas and Advantage in American Politics (1991 book proposal that led to Agendas and Instability in American Politics)
The American political system encourages rapid change during short bursts of activity as well as incrementalism at other times.
The authors state their model of policy change: long periods of slow, incremental change are broken by short bursts of rapid change. They say powerful economic interests build supporting institutional arrangements that last decades and then lose strength as public understanding and institutions change.
- Source
- Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones
- Date
- 1991
- Quoted from
- Proposal, Overview, p. 2 of the PDF
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://fbaum.unc.edu/books/agendas/Baumgartner_Agendas_and_Instability_proposal.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- This is the authors' proposal, hosted on Baumgartner's UNC page, not the 1993 book text. The book (University of Chicago Press, 1993; 2nd ed. 2009) was not read. Replace with the book's chapter 1 before the page quotes the theory.