The dynamics of bureaucracy in the US government : how Congress and federal agencies process information and solve problems /

"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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Workman, Samuel, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Temas:
United States. > Congress > History.
United States. > Congress
Bureaucracy > United States > History.
Bureaucratie > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration.
Bureaucracy
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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.

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