The Politics of Attention - How Government Prioritizes Problems (Hardcover)

  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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2005
Authors:	Bryan D. Jones • Frank R. Baumgartner
Dimensions:	250 x 200 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-40652-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
LSN:	0-226-40652-0
Barcode:	9780226406527

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