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Expert‐Based Information and Policy Subsystems: A Review and Synthesis
Author(s) -
Weible Christopher M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2008.00287.x
Subject(s) - unitary state , adversarial system , set (abstract data type) , computer science , policy learning , politics , management science , punctuated equilibrium , information theory , knowledge management , political science , artificial intelligence , economics , machine learning , law , programming language , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , biology
This article reviews and synthesizes the uses of expert‐based information in policy subsystems. The review begins by summarizing the different uses of information in the multiple streams theory, the punctuated equilibrium theory, the social construction theory, and the advocacy coalition framework. Three uses of expert‐based information are identified as instrumental, learning, and political. The three uses of expert‐based information are then compared across unitary, collaborative, and adversarial policy subsystems. This article synthesizes the findings in a set of propositions about the use of expert‐based information in policy subsystems and about the factors that contribute to shifts from one policy subsystem to another.