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The Political Economy of Extension Program Design: Institutional Maintenance Issues in the Organization and Delivery of Extension Programs
Author(s) -
McDowell George R.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1241810
Subject(s) - extension (predicate logic) , politics , function (biology) , affect (linguistics) , action (physics) , public economics , political science , business , public relations , economics , computer science , sociology , law , physics , communication , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , biology , programming language
Besides its educational function, extension is expected to generate political support for the land grant universities. The necessary conditions for extension programs to elicit political support are for them to ( a ) be a positive net benefit, ( b ) be clearly attributable to extension, ( c ) be feasible of political solicitation, and ( d ) have benefits of sufficient magnitude to motivate political action. The characteristics of programs that affect these conditions are the attributes of ( a ) incompatible use, ( b ) exclusion costs, and ( c ) joint impact. The instrument of program design that influences these attributes is the degree to which information is particularized to a specific audience.