Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems

3.7/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: October 26, 2005

ISBN: 0226406539

ISBN 13: 9780226406534

The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems

3.7/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: October 26, 2005

ISBN: 0226406539

ISBN 13: 9780226406534

More books from Bryan D. Jones

Agendas and Instability in American Politics

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Politics of Bad Ideas: The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Building Civic Capacity

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Policy Dynamics

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Politics and the Architecture of Choice: Bounded Rationality and Governance

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Politics of Information: Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, and Public Policy

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas

The New American Politics: Reflections On Political Change And The Clinton Administration

The Great Broadening: How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics

The Great Broadening: How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics

Rate this book!

Write a review?