Explaining Urban Budget Change in England: the Impact of the Media, Public Opinion and Political Violence.

This paper seeks to explain the changes in urban budgets in England between 1966-2003 through changes in the agendas on public opinion and the media; economic and political indicators; and the incidence of urban political violence. After discussing descriptive statistics, the analysis uses a regression model to explain budget change, with media attention to urban issues, public opinion on economic issues, unemployment, partisan control, and measures of urban riots as the explanatory terms. The paper addresses the literatures on the policy-opinion link, the media and agenda setting and the impact of political violence on welfare policy outputs. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]