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Good Advice: Information and Policy Making in the White House. By Daniel E. Ponder. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 244p. $39.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2002

Andrew Rudalevige
Andrew Rudalevige
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Dickinson College,,
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Abstract

That the amount and nature of the information reaching the president matters for the choices he makes is hardly disputed, but translating this insight into analysis has been slow work. This is true especially in comparison to other subfields (e.g., legislative studies), which in making use of the new institu- tionalism have stressed information by highlighting the roles institutions play in ameliorating the uncertainty rampant in political decision making. Daniel Ponder's new book, then, is particularly welcome. Good Advice asks some critical ques- tions: What did the president know, and how did he come to know it? Equally important, how did that matter?

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Book Review
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American Political Science Review , Volume 95 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 218 - 219
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2001 by the American Political Science Association

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