Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne Professor of Political Science The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802-6200 Email: Frankb@psu.edu Phone 814 863 8978 Fax 814 863 8979

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 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. Recent 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). 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, he completed a book-length study of changing issue-definition and resulting changes in public policy in the case of the death penalty: The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2008, with Suzanna De Boef and Amber E. Boydstun).

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 a large study of Washington lobbying processes (conducted with extensive support of the National Science Foundation, and with four collaborators, involving over 300 interviews with Washington-based policy advocates and decision-makers). 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.