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The powers of problem definition: The case of government paperwork
Problem definition is a package of ideas that includes, at least implicitly, an account of the causes and consequences of undesirable circumstances and a theory about how to improve them. As such, it serves as the overture to policymaking, as an integral part of the process of policymaking, and as a policy outcome. In each of these roles it seems to exert influence on government action. Distinguishing among the roles clarifies the nature of that influence. A case study examines the transition from one problem definition to another in the domain of information collection by the federal government. The rise of the Paperwork Reduction definition illustrates the variety of ways in which problem definition has powerful consequences.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45448/1/11077_2004_Article_BF00141381.pd
The Politics of Environmental Dispute Resolution
Also PCMA Working Paper #17.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51148/1/380.pd
Economic Planning and Politics in Britain, 1945–1974. By Jacques Leruez. Translated by Martin Harrison. (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1976. Pp. vii + 317. $20.00.)
Comparative Policy Research: Learning from Experience. Edited by Meinolf Dierkes, Hans Weiler, and Ariane Berthoin Antal (New York: St. Martin's, 1987. 531p. $40.00).
Richard M. Titmuss, Social Policy: An Introduction, edited by Brian Abel-Smith and Kay Titmuss, Allen and Unwin, London, 1974. 160 pp. £3.50, paper £1.30.
Richard M. Titmuss, Social Policy: An Introduction, edited by Brian Abel-Smith and Kay Titmuss, Allen and Unwin, London, 1974. 160 pp. £3.50, paper £1.30.
Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation. By John Majewski
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