Author: Bruce Bimber
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791496759
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books Nowhere in the U.S. government is the marriage between expertise and politics more normatively troublesome and empirically obscure than in Congress. The legislature is asked to be both expert and representative, to act on the best available information and judgment about policy problems while being responsive to, and reflective of, constituents' demands. This book examines the relationship betweentechnical experts and elected officials, challenging the prevailing view about how experts become politicized by the policy process. Bimber presents a theory about the connections between institutional structure and the strategies of experts who participate in politics. He tests this theory by tracing the interaction between Congress and the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), a recently abolished legislative branch agency created in 1972 to estimate the consequences of new technologies and free Congress from complete dependence on the executive branch for information and policy analysis. In addition, he provides comparative portraits of Congress's remaining support agencies--the Congressional Budget Office, the Congressional Research Office, and the General Accounting Office--and argues that the legislative context for the politics of expertise reveals patterns that have been overlooked in studies of expert knowledge and executive-branch policymaking.
Technology Assessment for the Congress
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration. Subcommittee on Computer Services
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Category : Technology assessment
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Technology assessment -- Legislative history of proposals for an office of technology assessment -- The technology assessment movement -- The technology assessment act of 1972 (P.L. 92-484) -- Operational concepts for implementing technology assessment -- On methodology for TA.
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Category : Technology assessment
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Technology assessment -- Legislative history of proposals for an office of technology assessment -- The technology assessment movement -- The technology assessment act of 1972 (P.L. 92-484) -- Operational concepts for implementing technology assessment -- On methodology for TA.
Technology Assessment
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Technology Assessment Activities in the Industrial, Academic, and Governmental Communities
Author: United States. Congress. Technology Assessment Board
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Category : Technology and state
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Category : Technology and state
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The Politics of Expertise in Congress
Author: Bruce Allen Bimber
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791430590
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Examines the relationship between technical experts and elected officials, challenging the prevailing view about how experts become politicized by the policy process.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791430590
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Examines the relationship between technical experts and elected officials, challenging the prevailing view about how experts become politicized by the policy process.
An Assessment of Technology for Local Development Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment
Author: Estados Unidos Congress Office of Technology Assessment
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Annual Report to the Congress for ...
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Technology Assessment Activities in the Industrial, Academic, and Governmental Communities
Author: United States. Congress. Technology Assessment Board
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Category : Technology and state
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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Category : Technology and state
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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Technology Assessment Activities of the National Science Foundation
Author: United States. Congress. Technology Assessment Board
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 673
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 673
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Catalog
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Government Involvement in the Innovation Process
Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Policy Alternatives
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Category : Research, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Research, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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