The Politics of Expertise in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Office of Technology Assessment

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Examines the relationship between technical experts and elected officials, challenging the prevailing view about how experts become politicized by the policy process.
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Examines the relationship between technical experts and elected officials, challenging the prevailing view about how experts become politicized by the policy process.
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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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  • ISBN-13: 9780791430590
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publication date: 9/1/1996
  • Pages: 128

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1
Knowledge and Power

Chapter 2
A Theory of the Politicization of Expertise

Chapter 3
OTA: "The Office of WHAT?"

Chapter 4
Building OTA: The Separation of Powers

Chapter 5
Saving OTA: Party Politics and the Strategy of Neutrality

Chapter 6
Sustaining OTA: Committee Politics and the Strategy of Neutrality

Chapter 7
Abolishing OTA: Budget Politics in the 104th Congress

Chapter 8
The Other Congressional Support Agencies

Chapter 9
Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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