People in and around government sense a national mood. - John W. Kingdon

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People in and around government sense a national mood.

John W. Kingdon

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About John W. Kingdon

John Wells Kingdon (born 1940) is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was a Guggenheim fellow.

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It seemed to me that we knew something about how issues were decided, but that we knew much less about how they got to be issues in the first place.

Ideas come from anywhere, actually, and the critical factor that explains the prominence of an item on the agenda is not its source, but instead the climate in government or the receptivity to ideas of a given type, regardless of source.

People are sometimes reluctant to take big steps. Apprehensive about being unable to calculate the political fallout, politicians shy away from grand departures.