[PDF][PDF] The Supply of Information and the Size of Government in the United States
BD Jones, FR Baumgartner, E De La Mare - Seattle: Center for American …, 2005 - Citeseer
In this paper, we explore the idea that the production of policy-relevant information is
encouraged in pluralistic political arrangements characterized by jurisdictional overlap and
interorganizational competition. Because the congressional committee system is the primary
institutional mechanism for legislative information-processing, we develop a measure of
diversity in the supply of information via the committee system based on mathematical
communications theory, using data from the Policy Agendas Project. Then we track changes …
encouraged in pluralistic political arrangements characterized by jurisdictional overlap and
interorganizational competition. Because the congressional committee system is the primary
institutional mechanism for legislative information-processing, we develop a measure of
diversity in the supply of information via the committee system based on mathematical
communications theory, using data from the Policy Agendas Project. Then we track changes …