Publications

Updated: May 04, 2023

Book

John, Peter, Anthony Bertelli, Will Jennings and Shaun Bevan. 2013. Policy Agendas in British Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.


Journal Articles

Bevan, Shaun, Enrico Borghetto and Henrik Seeberg. 2023. “Do Different Parties Respond to Different Problems? A Comparative Study of Parliamentary Questions Across Multiple Countries.” Journal of European Public Policy, Online First.

Bevan, Shaun. 2021 “Devolution is Secondary: What Drives Scottish Secondary Legislation?” Public Administration, 99(3): 517-529. 

Bevan, Shaun and Anna M. Palau. 2020 “The Comparative Agendas Project in Latin America: Data and Coding.” Revista de Administração Pública (RAP: Brazilian Journal of Public Administration), 54(6): 1526-1545.

Bevan, Shaun and Anne Rasmussen. 2020. “Voluntary Associations and Dynamic Agenda Representation in the United States.” Policy Studies Journal, 48(1): 111-132. 

Williams, Christopher and Shaun Bevan. 2019 “The Effect of Public Attitudes Towards the EU on European Commission Policy Activity.” European Union Politics, 20(4): 608-628. 

Bevan, Shaun, Will Jennings and Mark Pickup. 2019. “Problem Detection in Legislative Oversight: An Analysis of Legislative Committee Agendas in the U.K. and U.S.” Journal of European Public Policy, 26(10): 1560-1578.

Carammia, Marcello, Enrico Borghetto and Shaun Bevan. 2018. “Changing the Transmission Belt: The Programme-to-Policy Link in Italy between the First and Second Republic.” Italian Political Science Review, 48(Special Issue 3): 275-288.

Bevan, Shaun and Zachary Greene. 2018. “Cross-National Partisan Effects on Agenda Stability.” Journal of European Public Policy, 25(4): 586-605. 

Froio, Caterina, Shaun Bevan and Will Jennings. 2017. “Party Mandates and the Politics of Attention: Party Platforms, Public Priorities and the Policy Agenda in Britain.” Party Politics, 23(6): 692-703. 

Bevan, Shaun, Will Jennings and Christopher Wlezien. 2016 “An Analysis of the Public’s Personal, National and EU Issue Priorities.” Journal of European Public Policy, 26(6): 871-887.

Vliegenthart, Rens, Stefaan Walgrave, Frank Baumgartner, Shaun Bevan, Christian Breunig, Sylvain Brouard, Laura Chaqués Bonafont, Emiliano Grossman, Will Jennings, Peter Mortensen, Ana M. Palau, Pascal Sciarini and Anke Tresch. 2016. “Do the Media Set the Parliamentary Agenda? A Comparative Study in Seven Countries.” European Journal of Political Research, 55(2): 283-301.

Bevan, Shaun and Zachary Greene. 2016 "Looking for the Party? The Effects of Partisan Change on Issue Attention in UK Acts of Parliament." European Political Science Review, 8(1): 49-72.

Bevan, Shaun and Peter John. 2016 “Policy Representation by Party Leaders and Followers: What drives UK Prime Minister’s Questions?” Government & Opposition, 51(1): 59-83. 

Bevan, Shaun and Mona Krewel. 2015. “Responsive Elections: The Effect of Public Opinion on Political Campaigns.” Electoral Studies, 40: 548-555.
- Winner, Best Journal Article based on GLES data in 2015, DGfW.

Bevan, Shaun. 2015. “Bureaucratic Responsiveness: The Effects of Government, Public and European Attention on the UK Bureaucracy.”  Public Administration, 93(1): 139-158. 

Lovett, John, Shaun Bevan and Frank Baumgartner. 2015 “Popular Presidents Can Affect Congressional Attention, for a Little While.” Policy Studies Journal, 43(1): 22-43.

Boydstun, Amber E., Shaun Bevan and Herschel F. Thomas III. 2014. “The Importance of Attention Diversity and How to Measure It.” Policy Studies Journal, 42(2): 173-196.

Bevan, Shaun and Will Jennings. 2014. “Representation, Agendas and Institutions.” European Journal of Political Research, 53(1): 37-56.
- Winner, Best Comparative Policy Paper Presented at a political science conference in 2010, APSA.

Bevan, Shaun, Frank Baumgartner, Erik Johnson and John McCarthy. 2013. “Understanding Selection Bias, Time-Lags and Measurement Bias in Secondary Data Sources: Putting the Encyclopedia of Associations Database in Broader Context.” Social Science Research, 42(6): 1750-1764.

Bevan, Shaun. 2013. “Continuing the Collective Action Dilemma: The Survival of Voluntary Associations in the United States.” Political Research Quarterly, 66(3): 545-558.

Jennings, Will, Stephen Farrall and Shaun Bevan. 2012. “The Economy, Crime and Time: an analysis of recorded property crime in England & Wales 1961-2006.” International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 40(3): 192-210.

John, Peter and Shaun Bevan. 2012. “What Are Policy Punctuations? Large Changes in the Legislative Agenda of the UK Government, 1911-2008.” Policy Studies Journal, 40(1): 89-108. 

John, Peter, Shaun Bevan and Will Jennings. 2011. “The Policy-Opinion Link and Institutional Change: The Legislative Agenda of the United Kingdom and Scottish Parliaments.” Journal of European Public Policy, 18(7): 1052-1068. 

Bevan, Shaun, Peter John and Will Jennings. 2011. “Keeping Party Programmes on Track: The Transmission of the Policy Agendas of Executive Speeches to Legislative Outputs in the United Kingdom.” European Political Science Review, 3(3): 395-417. 

Jennings, Will, Shaun Bevan, Arco Timmermans, Gerard Breeman, Sylvain Brouard, Laura Chaques, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Peter John, Anna Palau and Peter B. Mortensen. 2011. “Effects of the Core Functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive Agendas.” Comparative Political Studies, 44(8): 1001-1030. 

Jennings, Will, Shaun Bevan and Peter John. 2011. “The British Government’s Political Agenda: the Speech from the Throne, 1911-2008.” Political Studies, 59(1): 74-98. 

Brouard, Sylvain, John Wilkerson, Frank R. Baumgartner, Arco Timmermans, Shaun Bevan, Gerard Breeman, Christian Breunig, Laura Chaqués, Christopher Green-Pedersen, Will Jennings, Peter John, Bryan D. Jones and David Lowery. 2009. “Comparer Les Productions Législatives: Enjeux et Methods.” in the special issue ‘Dossier: Les Agendas Politiques.” Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée 16(3): 381-404. 


Book Chapters

Bevan, Shaun, Enrico Borghetto, and Henrik Seeberg. 2021. “The Politics of Parliamentary Agenda-Setting Styles.” In Michael Howlet and Jale Tosun, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Policy Styles. Routledge.

Bevan, Shaun. 2019. “Gone Fishing: The Creation of the Comparative Agendas Project Master Codebook.” In Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, and Emiliano Grossman (eds.) Comparative Policy Agendas. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bevan, Shaun and Will Jennings. 2019. “The United Kingdom.” In Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, and Emiliano Grossman (eds.) Comparative Policy Agendas. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bevan, Shaun and Will Jennings. 2019. “The Public Agenda: a Comparative Perspective.” In Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, and Emiliano Grossman (eds.) Comparative Policy Agendas. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

John, Peter, Shaun Bevan and Will Jennings. 2014. “Party Politics and Policy Agendas: the case of the United Kingdom." in Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Stefaan Walgrave (eds.) Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems: A Comparative Approach. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Jordan, Grant, Frank Baumgartner, John McCarthy, Shaun Bevan and Jamie Greenan. 2011. “Tracking Interest-Group Populations in the US and UK.” In Darren Halpin and Grant Jordan, eds. The Scale of Interest Organization in Democratic Politics: Data and Research Methods. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Other Publications

Bevan, Shaun. 2023. “Stepwise Workflow for Linking Different Types of Data Sources.” Deliverable D8.3. OPTED: Observatory for Political Texts in European Democracies: A European research infrastructure.

Bevan, Shaun. 2022. “How to Create a Data Management Plan for an Online Research Project.” SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online. (DOI: 10.4135/9781529608953).

Bevan, Shaun. 2021. “Inventory of Concepts & Measurements.” Deliverable D8.2. OPTED: Observatory for Political Texts in European Democracies: A European research infrastructure.