Co-hosts Brooke and Laura talk to Dr. Brandon Archuleta about his new book, Twenty Years of Service: The Politics of Military Pension Policy and the Long Road to Reform. Editor's note: For posterity, we mention that the Valley Forge Winter was actually 1777-1778, not 1776 to 1777. This episode of The Policy Agenda was mixed and mastered by Max Edwards.

Brooke and Zac talk with our co-host E.J. Fagan about his dissertation, "Information Wars." This episode of The Policy Agenda was mixed and mastered by Jacob Weiss and Sofia Salter.

EJ and Brooke talk with Alexander Hertel-Fernandez about his new book, State Capture: How Conservative Activists, Big Business, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States -- and the Nation.   This episode of The Policy Agenda was mixed and mastered by Noah Keller.

Brooke talks with Dr. Peter Bjerre Mortensen from the University of Aarhus about two recent articles, "The Bureaucracy and the Public Agenda," co-authored with Martin Baekgaard and Henrik Bech Seeberg, and "Do Local Policy Agendas Respond to Local Problems?" co-authored with Henrik Bech Seeberg. Dr. Mortensen's recommendations for political science readers are both classics: The Semi-sovereign People by E.E. Schattschneider, and The Strategy of Conflict by Peter Schelling.

Brooke, Christine, and EJ talk with Frank Baumgartner about his new book (co-authored with Derek Epp and Kelsey Shoub) Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race.

Ross Buchanan joins the podcast to talk about how both democracies and authoritarian regimes respond to public demand for policy change. His project examines air pollution policy in China and the United States. Working paper here.

Reporting from the field in Denmark, Brooke Shannon talks with Christopher Green-Pedersen about his new book, The Reshaping of Western European Politics.

We talk to Bryan Jones, Sean Theriault, and Michelle Whyman about their new book, The Great Broadening, which explores the causes and consequences of the federal government's vast expansion of its policy agenda in the 1950s-1970s.

We talk with Samuel Workman and Deven Carlson on their new project on how organizations use a push and pull process to influence the provision and use of research in education policy. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation, #1827494.

E.J. is joined by special guest host Bryan Jones, director of the Policy Agendas Project. They interview three undergraduate J.J. Pickle Research Fellows, Krysta Kilinski, Matt Maldonado, and Chloe Slusher, about their research and experience working with the Policy Agendas Project. Krysta examines if polarization is caused by the replacement of old members of Congress, or adaptation by existing members. Matt examines how problems first appear in party platforms before moving to State of the Union addresses and Congressional hearings. Chloe examines how the Supreme Court's agenda reacted to the build-up of the federal bureaucracy.