{"id":583,"date":"2020-06-30T19:41:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T19:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/?post_type=speaker&p=583"},"modified":"2020-10-27T17:35:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T17:35:56","slug":"bryan-jones","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/speaker\/bryan-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Professor Jones\u2019 research interests center in the study of public policy processes, American governing institutions, and the connection between human decision-making and organizational behavior.

With Frank Baumgartner of the University of North Carolina and John Wilkerson of the University of Washington, Jones directs the Policy Agendas Project<\/a>, now housed at the University of Texas. The project is the major resource for examining changes in public policy processes in American national institutions. The project is the model for similar projects in Denmark, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, and the State of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jones has received National Science Foundation Grants totaling more than $2,650,000, and has published articles in the American Political Science Review<\/em>, the Journal of Politics<\/em>, the American Journal of Political Science<\/em>, Policy Studies Journal<\/em>, and many other professional journals. He has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science<\/em>, the Journal of Politics<\/em>, Economic Development Quarterly<\/em>, Governance<\/em>, Political Psychology<\/em>, and State and Local Government Review<\/em>. He has served as President and Vice President of the Midwest Political Science Association, the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association, and President of the APSA\u2019s Organized Section on Urban Politics. In 2003 Jones won the Herbert A. Simon Award for Contributions to the Study of Public Administration.

Before joining the Department of Government in 2008, Professor Jones was the Donald R. Matthews Distinguished Professor of American Politics at the University of Washington. Previously, he was Distinguished Professor and Department Head at Texas A&M University, and also taught at Wayne State University and the University of Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jones\u2019 books include Politics and the Architecture of Choice<\/em><\/a> (2001) and Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics<\/em><\/a> (1994), both winners of the APSA Political Psychology Section Robert Lane Award; The Politics of Attention<\/em><\/a> (co-authored with Frank Baumgartner, 2005); Agendas and Instability in American Politics<\/em><\/a> (co-authored with Frank Baumgartner, 1993), winner of the 2001 Aaron Wildavsky Award for Enduring Contribution to the Study of Public Policy of the American Political Science Association\u2019s Public Policy Section and The Politics of Bad Ideas<\/em><\/a> (co-authored with Walt Williams).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":584,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-583","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"J.J. \"Jake\" Pickle Regent's Chair in Congressional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"Jones","speaker_classification":["Current Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/583\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}