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John Wells Kingdon ist ein US-amerikanischer Politikwissenschaftler und emeritierter Professor der University of Michigan. Wikipedia  

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“A good idea catches on, snowballing as it picks up adherents. Sometimes a bad idea does the same.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 7, The Political Stream, p. 161

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

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 4, Processes: Origins, Rationality, Incrementalism, and Garbage Cans, p. 80

“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.”

Preface To The First Edition, p. xvii
Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition)

“People in and around government sense a national mood.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 7, The Political Stream, p. 146

“There is nothing automatic about campaign pledges finding their way into public policy.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 3, Outside Government, But Not Just Looking In, p. 63

“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.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 4, Processes: Origins, Rationality, Incrementalism, and Garbage Cans, p. 72

“The mere fact of being behind in "the greatest country on earth" is enough to constitute a problem for some people.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 5, Problems, p. 111

“We still encounter considerable doses of messiness, accident, fortuitous coupling, and dumb luck.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 9, Wrapping Things Up, p. 206

“Setting the agenda and getting one's way, however, are two very different things.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 2, Participants on the Inside of Government, p. 23

“Public opinion may sometimes direct government to do something, but it more often constrains government from doing something.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 3, Outside Government, But Not Just Looking In, p. 65

“Consensus is built, sometimes very rapidly, by cutting in many and diverse interests.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 7, The Political Stream, p. 161

“Ideas become prominent and then fade.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 6, The Policy Primeval Soup, p. 117

“Somehow, open heart surgery means more to most of us then the Alton, Illinois, Lock and Dam 26.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 5, Problems, p. 95

“One goal of a senator or representative is satisfying constituents. Publicity is essential, and one way to get publicity is to push for new policy initiatives.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 2, Participants on the Inside of Government, p. 38

“The chances for a problem to rise on the decision agenda are dramatically increased if a solution is attached.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 6, The Policy Primeval Soup, p. 143

“The opportunity passes if the ready alternative is not available.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 8, The Policy Window, and Joining the Streams, p. 170

“A fair body of scholarship has come to challenge the view that elected officials reign supreme.”

Quelle: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 2, Participants on the Inside of Government, p. 43

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