This chapter reviews Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET), and discusses new empirical
studies in the United States and elsewhere. It deals with an assessment of the strengths and …

Purpose Nonprofit organizations rely on earned income, government funding, charitable
donations and investment income to support numerous programs and services for the public …

Political scientists have increasingly focused on causal processes that operate not solely on
mean differences but on other stochastic characteristics of the distribution of a dependent …

Punctuated-equilibrium theory seeks to explain a simple observation: political processes are
generally characterized by stability and incrementalism, but occasionally they produce large …

We explore the impact of institutional design on the distribution of changes in outputs of
governmental processes in the United States, Belgium, and Denmark. Using comprehensive …

Studying agenda-setting and policy dynamics is a well-established research tradition dating
back to the work of Bachrach and Baratz and Schattschneider. The research tradition …

We examine regularities and differences in public budgeting in comparative perspective.
Budgets quantify collective political decisions made in response to incoming information, the …

This article represents the effect of public opinion on government attention in the form of an
error‐correction model where public opinion and policymaking attention coexist in a long …

This book is the outcome of a research project which began when I became a postdoctoral
researcher at the School of Governance, Utrecht University, in November 2002. Completing …

What stimulates policy change in organizations? Punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) posits
that over time policy moves slowly, but also experiences large, rapid changes. Explanations …