Bryan Jones
· Policy processes; models of decision-making and choice; agenda-setting; fiscal policyUniversity of Texas at Austin · Political Science
Active 1968–2025
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About
James Henson is the director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas. His work involves conducting regular, non-partisan, statewide polls of registered voters in Texas, and making the results and data available for public use. His research focuses on public opinion, political behavior, and electoral dynamics within Texas, including issues such as voter concern over gas prices, attitudes towards U.S. military actions, and perceptions of the country's direction. Henson's contributions include overseeing the Texas Politics Project's educational efforts, producing courses, and developing open-source resources for teaching and understanding Texas politics and government. His work also involves analyzing polling data, visualizing public opinion, and engaging in public discourse through podcasts and events related to Texas political developments.
Research topics
- Political science
- Computer science
- Public administration
- Economics
- Materials science
Selected publications
2023-05-09 · 32 citations
book-chapterPunctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET) seeks to explain a simple observation: although generally marked by stability and incrementalism, political processes occasionally produce large-scale departures from the past. Stasis, rather than crisis, typically characterizes most policy areas, but crises do occur. Large-scale changes in public policies are constantly occurring in one area or another of American politics as public understandings of existing problems evolve. This chapter examines Punctuated…
Journal of Historical Political Economy · 2023-11-01 · 16 citations
articleThe American Political Party System stultified during the Gilded Age, seemingly unable to capture the dynamic changes occurring in American society. Because of the frozen two-party system, a vigorous set of minor parties emerged, pressing ignored issues onto the policymaking agenda. Political scientists and historians have claimed the importance of minor parties in forcing the two-party system to break out of its lethargy. But they have not been able to evaluate this surge in policymaking as the…
2021-08-19 · 15 citations
book1st authorThis highly anticipated addition to the "Great Questions in Politics" series offers a provocative argument about the persistence of bad ideas in shaping American economic policy. The result of a collaboration between political scientist Bryan D. Jones and economist Walter Williams, The Politics of Bad Ideas is indispensable reading for any study of American government, public policy, or economic and budgetary analysis. The Politics of Bad Ideas examines why, over the last quarter century, bad ec…
The Code and Craft of Punctuated Equilibrium
2022-03-25 · 14 citations
book-chapterSenior authorAt the center of punctuated equilibrium is the study of agenda-setting. This chapter addresses four persistent methodological themes that thread through the development and current state of research in the field. These themes are using text-as-data in analyses of the discourse that underlies the connections between problems and solutions; making sure policy topics are comparable across time and space so that one may assess reliable time series of changes in the policy discourse; collaboration wi…
Southern Democracy or Southern Oligarchy?
2025-02-20
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This introductory chapter sets the problem of democratic development in the unequal South. It focuses on the debate of whether there was ever a solid white South unified around race, or whether there was always a division. Were there two Southern minds that deviated on the issues of oligarchy and democracy or just one based in the hierarchical plantation oligarchy. The chapter introduces the major historical eras in Southern political development and the critical junctures that divide t…
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Michael Pine
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Farya Phillips
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Jennifer Currin‐McCulloch
Colorado State University
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Abby R. Rosenberg
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Donald E. Fry
Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital
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Lailea Noel
The University of Texas at Austin
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Qi Chen
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