Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Part I “Seek and Ye Shall Find”
6. 1 Search, Information, and Policy Agendas 5
7. 2 Organizing for Expertise or Organizing for Complexity? 19
8. 3 Information, Search, and Government 39
9. Part II Information and the Growth of Government
10. 4 The Rise and Decline of Institutional Information Processing in the Executive and Legislative Branches 61
11. 5 From Clarity to Complexity in Congress 88
12. 6 The Search for Information and the Great New-Issue Expansion 114
13. 7 The Thickening and Broadening of Government 138
14. 8 Rounding Up the Usual Political Suspects 164
15. Part III The Implications of Information in Government
16. 9 Organizing Information and the Transformation of U.S. Policy Making 185
17. 10 Organizing Complexity 193
18. Appendices: Appendix to Chapter 4 209
19. References 217
20. Index 225