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Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. During this period, the federal government extended its scope into policy arenas previously left to civil society or state and local governments. With The Great Broadening, Bryan D. Jones, Sean M. Theriault, and Michelle Whyman examine in detail the causes, internal dynamics, and consequences of this extended ...

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Few aspects of public life are scrutinized and debated as intensely as leadership. It is crucial to the welfare of nations, the survival of political parties, and the functioning of interest groups and public corporations. And, as this volume demonstrates, political leadership is both a complex and elusive quality. In twelve provocative, state-of-the-art essays, leading scholars in political science explore the meaning of political leadership ...

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 ...

In this revised update, the authors have extended and refined their analysis of Detroit-area automakers and political leaders negotiating the selection of new factory sites and the consequent addition of thousands of jobs to the local economy. This analysis utilises the concept of "solution sets".

Preface: Prologue to a Grand Synthesis?Part 1: Microfoundations1. Traces of Eve2. Adaptation and Its Limits3. Procedural Limits on Adaptive Choice4. Human Information Processing5. A Social Species: Substantive Limits on Adaptive ChoicePart 2: Organizations and Institutions6. The Behavioral Theory of Organizations7. Efficient Markets, Efficient Politics, and the Index Problem8. The Design and Evolution of Formal Institutions9. Overestimation, N...

Most models of political decision-making maintain that individual preferences remain relatively constant. Why, then, are there often sudden abrupt changes in public opinion on political issues? Or total reversals by politicians on specific issues? Bryan D. Jones answers these questions by innovatively connecting insights from cognitive science and rational choice theory to political life.Individuals and political systems alike, Jones argues, t...

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