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. - John W. Kingdon

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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.

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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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Participants perceive swings in national mood, elections bring new administrations to power and new partisan or ideological distributions to Congress, and interest groups of various descriptions press (or fail to press) their demands on government.
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