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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Why Study Local Policy Agendas -- Two Motivations for Studying Local Governments -- The Importance of Local Policy Agendas -- What We Know About Local Policy Agendas -- The Potential of a Unified Dataset on Local Policy Agendas -- What Local Politics Can Teach Us About Policy Agendas -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: How to Study Local Policy Agendas -- Structure of Local Government in Denmark -- Coding the Local Policy Agenda -- Acquiring the Data -- Applying the Coding Scheme -- Measures of the Council Agenda -- Measuring the Issue Content of the Local Policy Agenda -- Measure of Agenda Size -- Measures of Complexity -- A Local Policy Agenda -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: Jurisdiction Size and the Local Policy Agenda -- Why Jurisdiction Size Matters to the Policy Agenda -- Studying Jurisdiction Size and the Policy Agenda Empirically -- Study 1: Jurisdiction Size and the Policy Agenda-Cross-sectional Evidence -- Study 2: Jurisdiction Size and the Local Policy Agenda-Quasi-experimental Evidence -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Committee Structure and the Local Policy Agenda -- Current Understanding of the Structure-Agenda Link -- Two Important Forces -- An Overview of Committees in the 98 Danish Municipalities -- The Committee Dataset -- Parallel Processing Gains Meet the Bottleneck of Attention -- The Impact of Changes in Committee Structures -- Further Explorations of Issue-Specific Committee Effects -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: Local Problems and the Local Policy Agenda -- Empirical Studies of Political Representation Reconsidered -- Problem-Based Representation -- How to Study Problem-Based Representation -- Measuring Political Competition -- Model Estimation and Control Variables -- Empirical Findings -- Discussion.