Information Processing and Policy Dynamics

Workman, Samuel; Jones, Bryan D.; Jochim, Ashley

doi:10.1111/j.1541-0072.2008.00296.x

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“…The limitations imposed on the policy-making agenda allow a large number of policies to remain ignored for long periods of time, resulting in stability and maintenance of the status quo. Eventually, a policy indicator or public awareness become too large to ignore, and policy makers shift their limited attention to the new issue (Jones, 2001;Jones & Baumgartner, 2005;Simon, 1957;Workman, Jones, & Jochim, 2009).…”

Section: Issue Attention and Policy Changementioning

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Identifying the Causes of Issue Attention and Policy Change: Evidence from U.S. Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Drilling Policy, 2008

Hughes

2017

Review of Policy Research

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The flow of attention in the policy process is dynamic and disruptive. While we know changes in issue attention often result in policy change, the causal mechanisms underlying the different stages of the attention allocation process remain unclear. This article uses Punctuated Equilibrium Theory to examine an underdeveloped aspect of issue attention within policy-making institutions: how specific policy indicators influence the entry and exit of issues on policy-making agendas. Partisan issue attention in the House of Representatives is used to analyze a significant change to U.S. offshore oil and natural gas drilling policy in 2008. The results highlight how historically high gasoline prices precipitated a shift in attention to offshore drilling and subsequent policy change. Moreover, gasoline prices Granger-cause attention to energy policy in partisan speeches over time. The analysis further reveals how competing policy frames and a salient focusing event shaped congressional and public discourse, leading to subsequent changes in attention. Taken together, the findings broaden our understanding of the policy process by identifying the specific forces behind the entry and exit of issues on the policy-making agenda. Identificando las causas de la atenci on a temas y cambios pol ıticos: evidencia obtenida de la pol ıtica de extracci on de petr oleo y gas natural costa afuera de 2008El flujo de atenci on en el proceso pol ıtico es din amico y disruptivo. A pesar de que sepamos que los cambios en atenci on a los temas resultan a menudo en cambios pol ıticos, los mecanismos causales que est an por debajo de las diferentes etapas del proceso de asignar atenci on permanecen inciertos. Este art ıculo utiliza la teor ıa del equilibrio puntuado para examinar un aspecto subdesarrollado de la atenci on a temas dentro de las instituciones de creaci on de pol ıticas: c omo los indicadores pol ıticos espec ıficos influencian la entrada y salida de problemas en las agendas de creaci on de pol ıticas. La atenci on a problemas partidistas en la C amara de Representantes se usa para analizar un cambio significativo a la pol ıtica de perforaci on costa afuera de petr oleo y gas natural en 2008. Los resultados resaltan c omo los precios hist oricamente altos de la gasolina apresuraron un cambio en atenci on a la bs_bs_banner perforaci on costa afuera y el cambio pol ıtico posterior. Adicionalmente, los precios de la gasolina tienen el efecto causal de Granger en la atenci on a la pol ıtica de energ ıa en discursos partidistas con el tiempo. El an alisis revela adicionalmente c omo los marcos pol ıticos rivales y un enfoque destacado dieron forma al discurso p ublico y del congreso, lo que llev o a cambios subsiguientes en atenci on. En conjunto, los hallazgos ampl ıan nuestro entendimiento del proceso pol ıtico al identificar las fuerzas espec ıficas detr as de la entrada y salida de temas en la agenda de creaci on de pol ıticas.

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Section: Issue Attention and Policy Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying the Causes of Issue Attention and Policy Change: Evidence from U.S. Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Drilling Policy, 2008

Hughes

2017

Review of Policy Research

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“…As attractive as the standard model is on its face, as a general model of policy change, it is much more limited than analysts realize (Baumgartner, Jones, & Wilkerson, 2011; Workman, Jones, & Jochim, 2009). First, in many cases, major policy change occurs in the absence of electoral change—including such important pieces of legislation in the United States as the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 (McCain‐Feingold) and the Troubled Asset Relief Program of 2008.…”

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From There to Here: Punctuated Equilibrium to the General Punctuation Thesis to a Theory of Government Information Processing

Jones

Baumgartner

2012

Policy Studies Journal

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In this introduction to the Policy Study Journal's special issue on punctuated equilibrium, we provide an overview of the approach, how it evolved, some of the major critiques directed at it, and some of the major developments it has spawned. We argue that the most important aspect of a theory or framework is not whether it is right or wrong, but the extent to which it is fruitful; that is, the extent to which it stimulated further research. Finally, we review the articles in this issue and put them in context.

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“…Process-oriented theorists perceive organizations first of all as (sometimes progressing in parallel, sometimes serially) sequences of decision-making (cf. Workman et al 2009). For the latter, 'structure' refers to the rules and routines that evolve in and through these processes and which direct the communication of information and the modes of decision-making.…”

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The Politics of Information

Blom¹,

Vanhoonacker²

2014

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The series maps the range of disciplines addressing the study of European public administration. In particular, contributions to the series will engage with the role and nature of the evolving bureaucratic processes of the European Union, including the study of the EU's civil service, of organization aspects of individual institutions such as the European Commission, the Council of Ministers, the External Action Service, the European Parliament, the European Court, and the European Central Bank, and of inter-institutional relations among these and other actors. The series also welcomes contributions on the growing role of EU agencies, networks of technical experts and national officials, and of the administrative dimension of multilevel governance, including international organizations. Of particular interest in this respect will be the emergence of a European diplomatic service and the management of the EU's expanding commercial, foreign, development, security, and defence policies, as well as the role of institutions in a range of other policy areas of the Union.Beyond this strong focus of EU administrative governance, the series will also include texts on the development and practice of administrative governance within European states. This may include contributions to the administrative history of Europe, which is not just about rules and regulations governing bureaucracies, or about formal criteria for measuring the growth of bureaucracies, but rather about the concrete workings of public administration, both in its executive functions and in its involvement in policy-making. Furthermore, the series will include studies on the interaction between the national and European level, with particular attention to the impact of the EU on domestic administrative systems. European Administrative Governance series Series standing order ISBN 978-1137-29475-3 (paperback) and978-0230-35976-5 (cased )You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order.

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Information Processing and Policy Dynamics

Cited by 146 publications

References 40 publications

Identifying the Causes of Issue Attention and Policy Change: Evidence from U.S. Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Drilling Policy, 2008

Identifying the Causes of Issue Attention and Policy Change: Evidence from U.S. Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Drilling Policy, 2008

From There to Here: Punctuated Equilibrium to the General Punctuation Thesis to a Theory of Government Information Processing

The Politics of Information

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