Bryan D. Jones is an American

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

and

public policy Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a Group decision-making, decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to Problem solving, solve or address relevant and problematic social issues, guided by a conceptio ...

scholar. He holds the J. J. "Jake" Pickle Regents Chair in Congressional Studies at the

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 students as of fall 2 ...

. He is an Academic Director of the Comparative Agendas Project, which has received more than $2,650,000 of

National Science Foundation The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an Independent agencies of the United States government#Examples of independent agencies, independent agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government that su ...

grant funding. Jones's work includes the development of punctuated equilibrium in social theory - and

critical juncture theory Critical juncture theory focuses on critical junctures, i.e., large, rapid, discontinuous changes, and the long-term causal effect or historical legacy of these changes. Critical junctures are turning points that alter the course of evolution of ...

- and

budget theory Budget theory is the academic study of political and social motivations behind government and civil society budgeting. Classic theorists in Public Budgeting include Henry Adams, William F. Willoughby, V. O. Key, Jr., and, more recently, Aaron ...

, and he has published academic articles in the

American Political Science Review The ''American Political Science Review'' (''APSR'') is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all areas of political science. It is an official journal of the American Political Science Association and is published on their behalf ...

, the

Journal of Politics A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of personal secretive thoughts and as open book to personal therapy or used to feel connected to onesel ...

, the

American Journal of Political Science The ''American Journal of Political Science'' is an academic journal published by the Midwest Political Science Association. It was formerly known as the ''Midwest Journal of Political Science''. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', it ...

, the Policy Studies Journal, and others. The

American Political Science Association The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political scientists in the United States. Founded in 1903 in the Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) of Tulane University in New Orleans, it publishes four ...

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

* ''Agendas and Instability in American Politics'' (co-authored with Frank Baumgartner, 1993) * ''Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, and Public Policy'' (1994) * ''Politics and the Architecture of Choice: Bounded Rationality and Governance'' (2001) * ''The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems'' (co-authored with Frank Baumgartner, 2005) * ''The Politics of Bad Ideas: The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America'' (co-authored with Walter Williams, 2007). * ''The Politics of Information: Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America'' (co-authored with Frank Baumgartner, 2014) * ''The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History'' (2025)

References

External links

Bryan D. Jones on Google Scholar

Comparative Agendas Project
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