Title: The Politics of Expertise in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 079143060X
ISBN 13: 9780791430606
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New
Weight: 210 grams

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Examines the relationship between technical experts and elected officials, challenging the prevailing view about how experts become politicized by the policy process.

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 and elected officials, challenging the prevailing view about how experts become politicized by the policy process.

Bimber presents a theory about the connections between institutional structure and the strategies of experts who participate in politics. He tests this theory by tracing the interaction between Congress and the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), a recently abolished legislative branch agency created in 1972 to estimate the consequences of new technologies and free Congress from complete dependence on the executive branch for information and policy analysis. In addition, he provides comparative portraits of Congress's remaining support agencies―the Congressional Budget Office, the Congressional Research Office, and the General Accounting Office―and argues that the legislative context for the politics of expertise reveals patterns that have been overlooked in studies of expert knowledge and executive-branch policymaking.

About the Author

Bruce Bimber is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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