The Policy Agenda

The Policy Agenda
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The Policy Agenda

A podcast discussing the newest research in the political science of the public policy process. Presented by the U.S. Policy Agendas Project at the University of Texas at Austin.

  1. 11/16/2020

    Episode 16: Military Pension Policy (with Dr. Brandon Archuleta)

    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 […]

  2. 04/16/2020

    Episode 15: Information Wars (with E.J. Fagan)

    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.

  3. 10/15/2019

    Episode 14: State Capture (with Alexander Hertel-Fernandez)

    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.

  4. 10/08/2019

    Episode 13: Do Local Policy Agendas Respond to Local Problems? (with Dr. Peter Mortensen)

    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 […]

  5. 09/30/2019

    Episode 12: Suspect Citizens (with Frank Baumgartner)

    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.

  6. 07/25/2019

    Episode 11: Policy Feedback in Democracies and Non-Democracies (with Ross Buchanan)

    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.

  7. 06/06/2019

    Episode 10: The Reshaping of Western European Politics with Christopher Green-Pedersen

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

  8. 05/14/2019

    Episode 9: The Great Broadening with Bryan Jones, Sean Theriault and Michelle Whyman

    We talk to Bryan Jones, Sean Theriault, and Michelle Whyman about their new book, The Great Broadening, which explores the causes and consequences of the federal government’s vast expansion of its policy agenda in the 1950s-1970s.

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A podcast discussing the newest research in the political science of the public policy process. Presented by the U.S. Policy Agendas Project at the University of Texas at Austin.

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    2018 - 2020
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