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Flowing along independently of the problems and policy streams is the political stream, composed of such things as public mood, pressure group campaigns, election results, partisan or ideological distributions in Congress, and changes of administration.

— John W. Kingdon

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Consensus is built, sometimes very rapidly, by cutting in many and diverse interests.

Setting the agenda and getting one's way, however, are two very different things.

People in and around government sense a national mood.

The mere fact of being behind in "the greatest country on earth" is enough to constitute a problem for some people.

A fair body of scholarship has come to challenge the view that elected officials reign supreme.

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