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The Acquisition and Utilization of Technical Information by Administrative Agencies
Abstract
Through a review and integration of the heretofore rather distinct literatures dealing with (1) policy making in administrative agencies, (2) the use of scientific and technical information in public policy, and (3) the utilization of policy research, this paper develops preliminary conceptual frameworks of the variables affecting the acquisition and the utilization of technical information by administrative agencies. Although previous research, based largely upon case studies of a few decisions within a single agency, has resulted in numerous bivariate hypotheses, the number of variables involved and recognized problems of generalizing the results suggest that future research be oriented toward a number of strategies capable of simultaneously examining the effect of numerous variables over large numbers of cases.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sabatier, P.
- Venue
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1978-09
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 396
- ISSN
- 0001-8392 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2083368181
- Cited by
- 185
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 24.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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