Surviving Information Overload
How Elite Politicians Select Information
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 6264604 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Stefaan Walgrave (0000-0003-1814-1015, University of Antwerp), Yves Dejaeghere (University of Antwerp) |
| Ano | 2017 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 229-244 |
| Data de publicação | 2017-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0952-1895 • E-ISSN: 1468-0491 |
| Editora | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gove.12209 |
| OpenAlex | W2371178445 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 59 |
| Referências citadas | 20 |
Information in politics is overabundant. Especially elite politicians are bombarded with information. Politicians must be selective to stay on top of the information torrent. Aggregate‐level work within the bounded rationality framework showed that information selection is at the core of decision making. Yet, an answer to the question as to how individual elite politicians go about selecting information is lacking. We know that they unavoidably do, but how exactly they perform this selection task remains largely unknown. The article draws on interviews with 14 party leaders and ministers in Belgium about their information processing. We present a typology, and a funnel, of consecutive information selection mechanisms and attitudes. Politicians partially outsource their information selection to procedures and/or staffers, they personally apply rigorous rules of thumb about what to attend to and what not, and they compensate the pressure and constant risk of messing up with a large dose of self‐confidence
Bounded rationality · Core (optical fiber · Economics · Elite · Information overload · Management · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Rationality · Selection (genetic algorithm · Sociology · Task (project management · Typology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Data Quality and Management · Engineering · Law · Personal Information Management and User Behavior
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| Obras citantes distintas | 59 |
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| Citações por ano | 6,56 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 58 |