The Politics of Expertise in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Office of Technology Assessment

by Bruce Bimber

Book Overview

CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books Nowhere in the U.S. government is the marriage between expertise and politics more normatively troublesome and empirically obscure than in Congress. The legislature is asked to be both expert and representative, to act on the best available information and judgment about policy problems while being responsive to, and reflective of, constituents' demands. This book examines the relationship betweentechnical experts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791430596
• ISBN13: 9780791430590
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.