I find a certain amount of difficulty when I attempt to offer an assessment of Baumgartner and Jones’ work, Agendas and Instability in American Politics. The reason for this is because the book is written in such a manner that it is enormously difficult to offer a conflicting argument to the model they use to describe how issues become part of agenda, the power of interest groups, policy monopolies, how power shifts, and other issues …showed first 75 words of 1446 total…

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