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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Bureaucracy and Problem Solving -- 1.1 What Is This Book About? -- 1.2 Why This Book? Why Now? -- 1.3 Dual Dynamics, or "Elmore's Problem'' -- 1.4 My Approach -- 1.5 Plan of the Book -- 2 The Dual Dynamics of the Administrative State -- 2.1 Dueling Traditions of Bureaucracy -- 2.2 Finding Tails and Forgetting Bureaucracy -- 2.3 Dual Dynamics -- 2.4 Logic of Dual Dynamics -- 2.5 The New History of the "Public'' Bureaucracy -- 3 The Regulatory Process as an Attention Mechanism -- 3.1 Legislative Development -- 3.2 Congressional Bureaucracy and Institutional Development -- 3.3 The Process of Rulemaking -- 3.4 Regulatory Policy Making and System Adaptability -- 3.5 Regulation as Information -- 3.6 Presidential Priorities and Regulatory Policy making -- 4 Problem Monitoring in the Administrative State -- 4.1 Rise of the Congress-Bureaucracy Nexus -- 4.2 Dual Dynamics as Signaling -- 4.3 Bureaucratic Policy Making -- 4.4 Bureaucratic Problem Monitoring -- 4.5 Signaling and Information -- 5 Problem Prioritization and Demand for Information -- 5.1 Issue Shuffling -- 5.2 Issue Bundling and the "Tuning'' of the Information Supply -- 5.3 Competition and the Market for Provision of Information -- 5.4 Congressional Prioritization -- 6 Problem Solving and the Supply of Information -- 6.1 Problem Monitoring -- 6.2 Problem Definition -- 6.3 Information Supply and Feedback -- 6.4 The Dynamics of Problem Solving in the Bureaucracy -- 7 Information, Bureaucracy, and Government Problem Solving -- 7.1 Foundations of the Argument -- 7.2 Congressional Prioritization -- 7.3 Bureaucratic Problem Solving -- 7.4 The Evidence -- 7.5 What Do We Learn? -- 7.6 Implications for Governance and Reform -- Appendix A: Conceptualization and Measurement |
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A.1 Examples of Rules -- A.2 The Unified Agenda as an Indicator -- A.3 Iterative Expert-Machine Topic Coding of Regulations -- A.4 Communications Measures and Information Processing -- Appendix B: Statistical Models -- B.1 Congressional Problem Prioritization -- B.2 Bureaucratic Problem Solving -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
| Summary |
"The book develops a new theoretical perspective on bureaucratic influence and congressional agenda setting based on limited attention and government information processing. Using a comprehensive new data set on regulatory policymaking across the entire federal bureaucracy, the book develops the theory of the dual dynamics of congressional agenda setting and bureaucratic problem solving as a way to understand how the U.S. government generates information about, and addresses, important policy problems. Key to the perspective is a communications framework for understanding the nature of information and signaling between the bureaucracy and Congress concerning the nature of policy problems. The book finds that congressional influence is innate to the process of issue shuffling, issue bundling, and the fostering of bureaucratic competition. In turn, bureaucracy influences the congressional agenda through problem monitoring, problem definition, and providing information that serves as important feedback in the development of an agenda"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Congress -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. Congress fast |
| Subject |
Bureaucracy -- United States -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
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Bureaucracy
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316319321 |
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1316319326 |
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9781107447752 |
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1107447755 |
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1316326020 |
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9781316326022 |
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1316329364 |
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9781316329368 |
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1107679559 |
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9781107679559 |
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