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Artists of the Possible - Governing Networks and American Policy since 1945 (Hardcover)
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Artists of the Possible - Governing Networks and American Policy since 1945 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development
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This book presents a new view of American policymaking, focusing on
networks of actors responsible for policymaking. Policy change is
not easily predictable from election results or public opinion
because compromise and coalitions among individual actors make a
difference in all three branches of government. The amount of
government action, the issue content of policy changes, and the
ideological direction of policy all depend on the joint actions of
executive officials, legislators, and interest group leaders. The
patterns of cooperation among policymakers and activists make each
issue area and time period different from the others and undermine
attempts to build an unchanging unified model of American
policymaking. In Artists of the Possible, Matt Grossman undertakes
a rigorous content analysis of 268 books and articles on the
history of 14 different major policy areas over 60 years, compiling
and integrates these findings to assess the factors that drive
policymaking. His findings-which collectively uncover the 790 most
significant policy enactments of the federal government and credit
1,306 specific actors for their role in policy change, along with
more than 60 circumstantial factors-overturn established theories
of policymaking. First, significant policy change does not follow
from the issue agenda of the electorate or policymakers. Second,
neither changes in public opinion nor the ideology or partisanship
of government officials reliably influence the amount or content of
policy change. Instead, the patterns of cooperation and compromise
among political elites drive the productivity and ideological
direction of policymaking. Third, the policymaking roles of public
opinion, media coverage, research, and international factors are
all limited. Fourth, no typology can explain differences in
policymaking across issue areas because the policy process is
broadly similar except for a few idiosyncratic differences
associated with each issue area.
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