Bryan D. Jones is an American
political scientist and
public policy scholar. He holds the J. J. "Jake" Pickle Regents Chair in Congressional Studies at the
University of Texas. He is an Academic Director of the Comparative Agendas Project, which has received more than $2,650,000 of
National Science Foundation grant funding.
Jones's work includes the development of
punctuated equilibrium in social theory - and
critical juncture theory - and
budget theory, and he has published academic articles in the
American Political Science Review, the
Journal of Politics
''The Journal of Politics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of political science established in 1939 and published quarterly (February, May, August and November) by University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Southern Political Science Assoc ...
, the
American Journal of Political Science, the
Policy Studies Journal, and others.
The
American Political Science Association
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903 in the Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) of Tulane University in New Orleans, ...
has granted Jones numerous awards, including the Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award for the book ''Agendas and Instability in American Politics'', which he co-authored with
Frank Baumgartner
Frank Baumgartner is an American political scientist, currently the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and formerly the Distinguished Professor and Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne ...
; and the Robert E. Lane Award for his books ''Politics and the Architecture of Choice'' and ''Reconsidering Decision-Making in Democratic Politics''. In 2017, Jones was elected as a fellow of the
National Academy of Public Administration.
Selected publications
* ''Politics and the Architecture of Choice'' (2001)
* ''Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics'' (1994)
* ''The Politics of Attention'' (co-authored with Frank Baumgartner, 2005)
* ''Agendas and Instability in American Politics'' (co-authored with Frank Baumgartner, 1993)
* ''The Politics of Bad Ideas'' (co-authored with Walt Williams).
References
External links
Bryan D. Jones on Google ScholarComparative Agendas Project
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Living people
American political scientists
University of Texas faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)