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THE POLITICS OF INFORMATION
PROBLEM DEFINITION AND THE COURSE OF PUBLIC POLICY IN AMERICA |
| By: |
Frank R. Baumgartner, Bryan D. Jones |
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Hardback |
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£80.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
022619809X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226198095 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
2 January, 2015 |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Description: |
How does the government decide what's a problem and what isn't? In this title, the authors focuses to the problem-detection process itself, showing how the growth or contraction of government is closely related to how it searches for information and how, as an organization, it analyzes its findings. |
| Synopsis: |
How does the government decide what's a problem and what isn't? Like individuals, Congress is subject to the "paradox of search." If policy makers don't look for problems, they won't find those that need to be addressed. But if they carry out a thorough search, they will almost certainly find new problems-and with the definition of each new problem comes the possibility of creating a program to address it. With The Politics of Attention, leading policy scholars Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones demonstrated the central role attention plays in how governments prioritize problems. Now, with The Politics of Information, they turn the focus to the problem-detection process itself, showing how the growth or contraction of government is closely related to how it searches for information and how, as an organization, it analyzes its findings. Better search processes that incorporate more diverse viewpoints lead to more intensive policy-making activity. Similarly, limiting search processes leads to declines in policy-making.At the same time, the authors find little evidence that the factors usually thought to be responsible for government expansion - partisan control, changes in presidential leadership, and shifts in public opinion - can be systematically related to the patterns they observe. |
| Illustrations: |
48 figures, 8 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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