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.