The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems - Couverture souple

Jones, Bryan D.; Baumgartner, Frank R.

 
9780226406534: The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0226406539 ISBN 13 : 9780226406534
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2005

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Bryan D. Jones is the J. J. "Jake" Pickle Regent's Chair in Congressional Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Together, they are the authors of several books, including, most recently, Agendas and Instability in American Politics, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226406539
ISBN 13 
9780226406534
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780226406527: The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0226406520 ISBN 13 :  9780226406527
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2005
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