Organizing Attention: Responses of the Bureaucracy to Agenda Disruption

May, Peter; Workman, Samuel; Jones, Bryan D.

doi:10.1093/jopart/mun015

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“…4 Examples of the appropriate use of inter-coder reliability for specific deductive concepts include Moynihan and Ingraham's (2004) content analysis of performance reports, or May, Jones and Workman (2008) coding of federal rules for specific characteristics. 5 A copy of the content analysis is available from the author upon request.…”

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The Network Governance of Crisis Response: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems

Moynihan

2009

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

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This article examines the application of a structural innovation known as Incident Command Systems (ICS) in different crises. The ICS seeks to coordinate multiple response organizations under a temporary hierarchical structure. The ICS is of practical interest because it has become the dominant mechanism by which crisis response is organized in the United States. It is of theoretical interest because it provides insights into how a highly centralized mode of network governance operates. Despite the hierarchical characteristics of the ICS, the network properties of crisis response fundamentally affects its operations, in terms of the coordination difficulties that multiple members bring, the ways in which authority is shared and contested between members, and the importance of trust in supplementing formal modes of control.2

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The Network Governance of Crisis Response: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems

Moynihan

2009

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

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367

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“…14 14 The finite nature of attention, and the implication that salience of one issue comes at the expense of another, extends beyond public opinion to institutions such as Congress and bureaucratic agencies. May, Workman, and Jones (2008) point to the limits of institutions in handling information as a critical constraint within the policy process. …”

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Trans‐Subsystem Dynamics: Policy Topography, Mass Opinion, and Policy Change

Jones

Jenkins‐Smith

2009

Policy Studies Journal

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We argue that the treatment of trans‐subsystem change, and particularly the role of public opinion in fostering such change, within the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) has been underspecified. We propose a model of “policy topography” that combines the concepts of public opinion, clusters of linked subsystems, and policy issue venues. While the ACF has characterized subsystems as relatively self‐contained, we argue that they are more usefully understood as operating in a relatively permeable fashion among evolving clusters of subsystems linked together by networked relations, strategically overlapping policy considerations, and public opinion disruptions. The “policy topography” model offers opportunities to assess the relationships across policy subsystems, and to better specify the critical relationship between public policy and mass opinions. We offer examples, and suggest hypotheses along with avenues for appropriate empirical analysis.

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“…Its concomitant problem of fragmentation results then from the fact that, eventually, parallel information processing has to turn into sequential, one-at-a-time information processing and then runs into the problem of attention selectivity: an overreaction on some issues, and neglect of other issues perhaps as important (cf. May et al 2008).…”

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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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Organizing Attention: Responses of the Bureaucracy to Agenda Disruption

Cited by 88 publications

References 31 publications

The Network Governance of Crisis Response: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems

The Network Governance of Crisis Response: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems

Trans‐Subsystem Dynamics: Policy Topography, Mass Opinion, and Policy Change

The Politics of Information

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