Frank R. Baumgartner
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Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne Professor of Political
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Frank R. Baumgartner (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986) is the Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne Professor of Political Science at Penn State University. He was named the first holder of the Miller-LaVigne Professorship in April 2007. He was previously Distinguished Professor (2005-2007) and Department Head (1999-2004) at Penn State, after previous positions at the University of Iowa (1986-87), Texas A&M University (1987-98), and Caltech (1998-99). He has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Michigan, Washington, Bergen (Norway) and Aberdeen (Scotland), the Institute for Public Management (Paris), Sciences Po (Paris), the European University Institute (EUI, Florence, Italy), and the Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France). He has a continuing appointment as a visiting researcher at CEVIPOF-Sciences Po in Paris, and teaches a graduate class in public policy there each May-June. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, the Journal of European Public Policy, and other journals. His work focuses on public policy, agenda-setting, and interest groups in American politics and has appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Comparative Politics, the Journal of European Public Policy, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.
With Bryan D. Jones, he created the Policy Agendas Project (www.policyagendas.org), and they continue to co-direct it, with John Wilkerson. Books from that project include Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas, a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy (13,7, September 2006; coedited with Bryan D. Jones and Christoffer Green-Pedersen); The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems (with Bryan D. Jones; University of Chicago Press, 2005); Policy Dynamics (co-edited, with Bryan D. Jones; University of Chicago Press, 2002); and Agendas and Instability in American Politics (with Bryan Jones; University of Chicago Press, 1993; second edition to appear in 2009).
Other books include Basic Interests (with Beth Leech), on the importance of interest groups in American politics and political science (Princeton University Press, 1998) and Conflict and Rhetoric in French Policymaking (Pittsburgh, 1989), on agenda-setting in French politics.
Most recently, his book The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence (Cambridge University Press, 2008, with Suzanna De Boef and Amber E. Boydstun) was awarded the Gladys M. Kammerer Award by the American Political Science Association for the best book on US national policy.
In 2009, the University of Chicago Press will publish Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why (co-authored with Jeffrey Berry, Marie Hojnacki, David Kimball, and Beth Leech), reporting the findings from the Lobbying and Policy Advocacy Project, based on interviews with over 300 Washington lobbyists and policymakers.
His current research projects focus on extensions of the Policy Agendas Project (internationally in Europe, for the state of Pennsylvania, and adding more resources to the US project) as well as European extensions of the Lobbying and Advocacy Project. The comparative policy agendas projects have now been funded in Canada, England, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Denmark, and for Hong Kong.
Two major web sites document this work: The Policy Agendas Project at http://www.policyagendas.org and the Lobbying and Public Advocacy Project at http://lobby.la.psu.edu.