Bryan Jones is J.J."Jake" Pickle Regents' Chair in Congressional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests center on the study of public policy processes, American governing institutions, and the connection between human decision-making and organizational behavior. He directs the U.S. Policy Agendas Project, the major resource for examining changes in public policy processes in American national institutions. The Policy Agendas system has been adopted in thirty countries, allowing comparisons of policy change worldwide.