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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: Jones and Baumgartner as discussed by the authors studied how politicians manage the flood of information from a wide range of sources, and which issues do they pay attention to and why, in American politics.
Abstract: On any given day, policymakers are required to address a multitude of problems and make decisions about a variety of issues, from the economy and education to health care and defense. This has been true for years, but until now no studies have been conducted on how politicians manage the flood of information from a wide range of sources. How do they interpret and respond to such inundation? Which issues do they pay attention to and why? Bryan D. Jones and Frank R. Baumgartner answer these questions on decision-making processes and prioritization in "The Politics of Attention". Analyzing fifty years of data, Jones and Baumgartner's book is the first study of American politics based on a new information-processing perspective. The authors bring together the allocation of attention and the operation of governing institutions into a single model that traces public policies, public and media attention to them, and governmental decisions across multiple institutions. "The Politics of Attention offers a groundbreaking approach to American politics based on the responses of policymakers to the flow of information. It asks how the system solves, or fails to solve, problems rather than looking to how individual preferences are realized through political action.
884 citations
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01 Aug 2003
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the general characteristics of human nature, the history of rude nations, and the consequences that result from the advancement of civil and commercial arts, and of the decline of nations.
Abstract: 1. Of the general characteristics of human nature 2. Of the history of rude nations 3. Of the history of policy and arts 4. Of the consequences that result from advancement of civil and commercial arts 5. Of the decline of nations 6. Of corruption and political slavery.
879 citations
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13 Jan 1999
TL;DR: In the early 1980s, many observers, argued that powerful organized economic interests and social democratic parties created successful mixed economies promoting economic growth, full employment, and a modicum of social equality as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In the early 1980s, many observers, argued that powerful organized economic interests and social democratic parties created successful mixed economies promoting economic growth, full employment, and a modicum of social equality The present book assembles scholars with formidable expertise in the study of advanced capitalist politics and political economy to reexamine this account from the vantage point of the second half of the 1990s The authors find that the conventional wisdom no longer adequately reflects the political and economic realities Advanced democracies have responded in path-dependent fashion to such novel challenges as technological change, intensifying international competition, new social conflict, and the erosion of established patterns of political mobilization The book rejects, however, the currently widespread expectation that ‘internationalization’ makes all democracies converge on similar political and economic institutions and power relations Diversity among capitalist democracies persists, though in a different fashion than in the ‘Golden Age’ of rapid economic growth after World War II
879 citations
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31 Oct 1978
TL;DR: In a survey of political participation in seven nations (Nigeria, Austria, Japan, India, Netherlands, Yugoslavia, and United States) as discussed by the authors, the relationship between social, economic, and educational factors and political participation was examined.
Abstract: In this survey of political participation in seven nations-Nigeria, Austria, Japan, India, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, and the United States-the authors examine the relationship between social, economic, and educational factors and political participation.
879 citations
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01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: O'Rourke and Williamson as mentioned in this paper present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.
Abstract: Globalization is not a new phenomenon, nor is it irreversible. In Gobalization and History, Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914--the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.The authors estimate the extent of globalization and its impact on the participating countries, and discuss the political reactions that it provoked. The book's originality lies in its application of the tools of open-economy economics to this critical historical period--differentiating it from most previous work, which has been based on closed-economy or single-sector models. The authors also keep a close eye on globalization debates of the 1990s, using history to inform the present and vice versa.The book brings together research conducted by the authors over the past decade--work that has profoundly influenced how economic history is now written and that has found audiences in economics and history, as well as in the popular press.
879 citations