On any given day, policymakers are required to address a multitude
of problems and make decisions about a variety of issues, from the
economy and education to health care and defense. This has been
true for years, but until now no studies have been conducted on how
politicians manage the flood of information from a wide range of
sources. How do they interpret and respond to such inundation?
Which issues do they pay attention to and why? Bryan D. Jones and
Frank R. Baumgartner answer these questions on decision-making
processes and prioritization in "The Politics of Attention,"
Analyzing fifty years of data, Jones and Baumgartner's book is the
first study of American politics based on a new
information-processing perspective. The authors bring together the
allocation of attention and the operation of governing institutions
into a single model that traces public policies, public and media
attention to them, and governmental decisions across multiple
institutions.
"The Politics of Attention "offers a groundbreaking approach to
American politics based on the responses of policymakers to the
flow of information. It asks how the system solves, or fails to
solve, problems rather than looking to how individual preferences
are realized through political action.
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