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Explores how the US legislature tries to act on the best available information about policy problems and at the same time to be responsive to the constituents who elected them. Bimber (political science, U. of California-Santa Barbara) focuses on interactions between elected officials and technical experts from the Office of Technology Assessment, which was founded in 1972 and abolished in 1995. He finds that institutional structure and individual strategies combine to politicize experts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780791430606
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publication date: 8/8/1996
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 144
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.34 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Ch. 1 Knowledge and Power 1
Ch. 2 A Theory of the Politicization of Expertise 12
Ch. 3 OTA: "The Office of WHAT?" 25
Ch. 4 Building OTA: The Separation of Powers 40
Ch. 5 Saving OTA: Party Politics and the Strategy of Neutrality 50
Ch. 6 Sustaining OTA: Committee Politics and the Strategy of Neutrality 60
Ch. 7 Abolishing OTA: Budget Politics in the 104th Congress 69
Ch. 8 The Other Congressional Support Agencies 78
Ch. 9 Conclusion 93
Notes 101
Bibliography 115
Index 125
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