By Bryan D. Jones
Analyzing fifty years of information, Jones and Baumgartner's ebook is the 1st learn of yankee politics in response to a brand new information-processing standpoint. The authors collect the allocation of consciousness and the operation of governing associations right into a unmarried version that lines public regulations, public and media consciousness to them, and governmental judgements throughout a number of institutions.
The Politics of Attention deals a groundbreaking method of American politics according to the responses of policymakers to the circulate of knowledge. It asks how the approach solves, or fails to resolve, difficulties instead of trying to how person personal tastes are discovered via political action.
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In any case, once an issue has been characterized, then a decision-maker has to choose among available solutions or alternatives suited to solve the problem as it has come to be understood. Often, the definition of the problem goes far in determining the appropriate solution, but still there may be several possible alternatives 42 available. Some of these alternatives may have been used before with greater or lesser success; some may have ready-made and available implementation mechanisms; others may not have been tried before.
Majorities may over-react even more than American institutions underreact. Inefficiencies based on Attention and Identification with the Previous Decision The process of attention allocation is fundamentally inefficient, in that it adds friction to the translation of informational signals into outputs. As a direct consequence, decision-makers tend to respond disproportionately to new information. We show in this section how this inefficiency is unavoidable and that it is exacerbated by other aspects of human nature that add even more inefficiency to the translation of inputs into outputs.
We also find attenuated correspondence between the public’s priorities and actual lawmaking. It is clear that a proper conception of representation must include an agenda-setting component. We conclude with some comments about the nature of democratic governance. Because of the inevitable consequences of cognitive limits and institutional design, the theory of disproportionate information processing developed here integrates punctuated equilibrium and standard incremental approaches to government.