Putting on the brakes or pressing on the gas? Media attention and the speed of policymaking

Policy Studies Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 109-126

  Wolfe, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Media; Policy process; Punctuated equilibrium

Indexed keywords

POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 84856203338     PISSN: 0190292X     EISSN: 15410072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2011.00436.x     Document Type: Article

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