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The Politics of Information - Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Information - Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America (Hardcover)
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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.
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