Publications

Books

• Peter John, Anthony Bertelli, Will Jennings and Shaun Bevan. (2013). Policy Agendas in British Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal articles

• Shaun Bevan and Will Jennings. (2014). ‘Representation, Agendas and Institutions.’ European Journal of Political Research, 53(1): 37-56.
• Peter John and Shaun Bevan. (2012). ‘What Are Policy Punctuations? Large Changes In the Agenda of the UK Government, 1911-2008.’ Policy Studies Journal, 40(1): 89-108.
• Peter John, Shaun Bevan and Will Jennings. (2011). ‘The Policy-Opinion Link and Institutional Change: the Policy Agenda of the United Kingdom and Scottish Parliaments, 1977-2008.’ Journal of European Public Policy 18(7): 1052-1068.
• Shaun Bevan, Peter John and Will Jennings. (2011). ‘Keeping Party Programmes on Track: The Transmission of the Policy Agendas of the Speech from the Throne to Acts of the UK Parliament.’ European Political Science Review 3(3): 395-417.
• Will Jennings, Shaun Bevan, Arco Timmermans, Laura Chaques, Gerard Breeman, Sylvain Brouard, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Peter John, Peter B. Mortensen and Anna Palau. (2011). ‘Effects of the Core Functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive Agendas.’ Comparative Political Studies 44(8): 1001-1030.
• Peter B. Mortensen, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Gerard Breeman, Will Jennings, Peter John, Arco Timmermans, Laura Chaques and Anna Palau. (2011). ‘Comparing Government Agendas: Executive Speeches in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Denmark.’ Comparative Political Studies 44(8): 973-1000.
• Will Jennings, Shaun Bevan and Peter John. (2011). ‘The British Government’s Political Agenda: the Speech from the Throne, 1911-2008.’ Political Studies, 59(1): 74-98.
• Will Jennings and Peter John. (2010). ‘Punctuations and Turning Points in British Politics: the Policy Agenda of the Queen’s Speech, 1940-2005.’ British Journal of Political Science, 40(3): 561-586.
• Sylvain Brouard, John Wilkerson, Frank R.Baumgartner, Arco Timmermans, Shaun Bevan, Gerard Breeman, Christian Breunig, Laura Chaqués, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Will Jennings, Peter John, Bryan D. Jones and David Lowery. (2009). ‘Comparer les Productions Législatives: Enjeux et Méthodes.’ Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée: Les Agendas Politiques, 16(3): 381-404.
• Gerard Breeman, Laura Chaques, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Will Jennings, Peter B. Mortensen, Ana Palau and Arco Timmermans. (2009). ‘Comparer les Agendas Gouvernementaux: les Discours du Trône aux Pays-Bas, au Royaume-Uni, au Danemark et en Espagne.’ Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée: Les Agendas Politiques, 16(3): 405-422.
• Sebastiaan Princen, Sylvain Brouard, Laura Chaqués, Christoffer Green Pedersen, Will Jennings, Peter John, and Luz Muñoz. (2009). ‘Les Dynamiques D’Agendas Multiniveaux dans la Politique Environnementale de l’Union Européenne.’ Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée: Les Agendas Politiques, 16(3): 485-502.
• Will Jennings and Peter John. (2009). ‘The Dynamics of Political Attention: Public Opinion and the Queen’s Speech in the United Kingdom.’ American Journal of Political Science, 53(4): 838-854.

ESRC Project Reports

Key findings from the ESRC Project ‘Legislative Agendas in the UK’ (addressed in length in the book Policy Agendas in British Politics) are summarised in this document. A series of reports also summarise the data and analyses from the project relating to the policy, public and media agendas in the UK.

• Peter John and Shaun Bevan (2011) ‘Project Report on Prime Minister’s Parliamentary Questions‘: this report outlines how the dataset on PMQs helps our understanding of the agenda of the opposition in Parliament.
• Will Jennings (2011) ‘Project Report on Agendas and Representation in Britain‘: this report discusses the policy-opinion link, presenting findings on correspondence between the public agenda (measured with data on the ‘most important problem’) and the executive agenda (i.e. Speech from the Throne), the legislative agenda (i.e. Acts of UK parliament) and the media agenda (i.e. The Times).
• Will Jennings (2011) ‘Project Report on Punctuations in British Governing Agendas‘: this report summarises evidence concerning ‘punctuated equilibrium’ in the policy, public and media agendas in the UK, comparing the degree of ‘punctuatedness’ with input (i.e. real world) variables.
• Shaun Bevan (2011) ‘The UK Policy Agendas Project Media Dataset Research Note: The Times (London)‘: this report introduces the dataset on the media agenda in the UK, and discusses patterns of attention in The Times over the period from 1960 to 2008.
• Darren Halpin (2011) ‘Quantifying the Scottish Parliamentary and Legislative Agendas: Acts, Inquiries and Sewel Motions of the Scottish Parliament (1999-2007)‘: this reports on the coding and analysis of the Scottish legislative agenda since the devolution settlement of 1999. It quantifies the spread and diversity of the issue attention of Acts of Scottish Parliament.