Robert F Rich
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1149412 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert F Rich |
| NOMBRES | Robert F |
| APELLIDO | Rich |
| FIRMA | RICH R F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 595 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Social Science Information and Public Policy Making
A survey of federal officials reveals the belief that government should make the fullest possible use of social science information-and yet most of the information developed by social scientists winds up in specialized libraries or data banks, where it remains unused. Why don't public officials make greater use of the information social scientists develop? What can social scientists do to ensure that their findings are used? To answer these and r…
The Political Environment and Citizen Competence
care reform, we find that performance depends heavily on environmental conditions. A combination of general information with increased motivation to act responsibly improves aggregate performance. An extremely favorable environment not only enhances performance, but it even eliminates the effects of individual differences in education and political sophistication. The analysis points toward reforming structures that shape the political environmen…
Misinformation and the Currency of Democratic Citizenship
Scholars have documented the deficiencies in political knowledge among American citizens. Another problem, misinformation, has received less attention. People are misinformed when they confidently hold wrong beliefs. We present evidence of misinformation about welfare and show that this misinformation acts as an obstacle to educating the public with correct facts. Moreover, wide-spread misinformation can lead to collective preferences that are fa…
Rationality and Use of Information in Policy Decisions
In the field of knowledge acquisition, dissemination, and utilization/impact, few studies have examined the appropriateness of rational actor theories as a theoretical framework. Rather, the rational actor perspective has been simply taken for granted as a relevant analytical tool for explaining the use of information in policymaking. This article singles out one major set of assumptions imbedded in rational actor theories, those dealing with inf…
Community food security
The shaping of collective values through deliberative democracy
Just the Facts, Ma'am”
An important dimension of the future of fact is the status of political facts in research on public opinion. Analyzing the public's factual knowledge about public policy is central to addressing citizen competence yet more problematic than scholars have acknowledged. To show this, the authors first summarize a study of theirs that uses typical measures of citizens' information. In a survey of Illinois citizens, they measured factual perceptions a…
Measuring knowledge utilization
The Future of Health Policy
Federal Policy and Knowledge Utilization Issues for the New Decade
Knowledge Creation, Diffusion, and Utilization
This article provides an assessment of the fields of knowledge creation, diffusion, and utilization from the perspective of the founding editor of this journal. Where are researchers in the development of this area of inquiry? What are some of the critical agenda items for the future ? The article argues that the field faces the following issues: a crisis of legitimacy, a lack of theory development, problems in measurement of the phenomena being …
Change of Editor
Information Selection in the House of Representatives
This article focuses on information selection in the United States House of Representatives. It asks, "Is the selection process in the House similar to the information selection process in other organizations?" Information selection fills three primary roles: an informing role, a supportive role, and a legitimizing role. The latter two roles may be more important in the House than in other organizations, since it is a more political setting. The …
Howard Davis's Writings
Writing this article for a special issue of Knowledge honoring Howie Davis has been a bittersweet experience Sweet because of how much I learn each time I read Howie's work. Bitter because of the fact that he is no longer here to contribute to the many endeavors of which he was apart He was a strong supporter of this journal from the time it was first conceived of. Howie Davis was very important to me from the time that I finished graduate school…
Change and Stability in Mental Health Policy
This article examines the development of mental health policy in the United States from 1945 to 1985. The mental health system has experienced two major transformations during this period. Data from interviews and records are used to analyze the impact of these changes on the development of policy and on delivery of services at the federal, state, and local levels of government
Social Science Information and Public Policy Making
The Management and Utilization of R&D
The Pursuit of Knowledge
Systems of Analysis, Technology Assessment, and Bureaucratic Power
Jail Sentences for Driving While Intoxicated in Chicago
Excessive drinking is involved in over one-half of the motor vehicle associated fatalities in the United States (Department of Transportation, 1968). Various means have been suggested, and some tried, to curb these losses. In only a few cases have countermeasures against driving while intoxicated been subjected to scientifically acceptable evaluation as to effectiveness.In one such study, Barmack and Payne (1964b) used an information program with…
Constant Ratio Rule for Confusion Matrices From Short‐term Memory Experiments
Clarke (1957) has presented evidence that a constant ratio rule holds for auditory signal identification experiments. That is, the subset of a large confusion matrix may be used to predict a smaller confusion matrix based on data gathered under identical conditions. Evidence is presented that the constant ratio rule also holds for confusion matrices derived from short‐term memory experiments. The 10 times 10 confusion matrix presented by Conrad (…
Misinformation and the Currency of Democratic Citizenship
Scholars have documented the deficiencies in political knowledge among American citizens. Another problem, misinformation, has received less attention. People are misinformed when they confidently hold wrong beliefs. We present evidence of misinformation about welfare and show that this misinformation acts as an obstacle to educating the public with correct facts. Moreover, wide-spread misinformation can lead to collective preferences that are fa…
The Political Environment and Citizen Competence
care reform, we find that performance depends heavily on environmental conditions. A combination of general information with increased motivation to act responsibly improves aggregate performance. An extremely favorable environment not only enhances performance, but it even eliminates the effects of individual differences in education and political sophistication. The analysis points toward reforming structures that shape the political environmen…
The shaping of collective values through deliberative democracy
Just the Facts, Ma'am”
An important dimension of the future of fact is the status of political facts in research on public opinion. Analyzing the public's factual knowledge about public policy is central to addressing citizen competence yet more problematic than scholars have acknowledged. To show this, the authors first summarize a study of theirs that uses typical measures of citizens' information. In a survey of Illinois citizens, they measured factual perceptions a…
Rationality and Use of Information in Policy Decisions
In the field of knowledge acquisition, dissemination, and utilization/impact, few studies have examined the appropriateness of rational actor theories as a theoretical framework. Rather, the rational actor perspective has been simply taken for granted as a relevant analytical tool for explaining the use of information in policymaking. This article singles out one major set of assumptions imbedded in rational actor theories, those dealing with inf…
Knowledge Creation, Diffusion, and Utilization
This article provides an assessment of the fields of knowledge creation, diffusion, and utilization from the perspective of the founding editor of this journal. Where are researchers in the development of this area of inquiry? What are some of the critical agenda items for the future ? The article argues that the field faces the following issues: a crisis of legitimacy, a lack of theory development, problems in measurement of the phenomena being …
The Pursuit of Knowledge
Jail Sentences for Driving While Intoxicated in Chicago
Excessive drinking is involved in over one-half of the motor vehicle associated fatalities in the United States (Department of Transportation, 1968). Various means have been suggested, and some tried, to curb these losses. In only a few cases have countermeasures against driving while intoxicated been subjected to scientifically acceptable evaluation as to effectiveness.In one such study, Barmack and Payne (1964b) used an information program with…
Community food security
Systems of Analysis, Technology Assessment, and Bureaucratic Power
Information Selection in the House of Representatives
This article focuses on information selection in the United States House of Representatives. It asks, "Is the selection process in the House similar to the information selection process in other organizations?" Information selection fills three primary roles: an informing role, a supportive role, and a legitimizing role. The latter two roles may be more important in the House than in other organizations, since it is a more political setting. The …
The Management and Utilization of R&D
Constant Ratio Rule for Confusion Matrices From Short‐term Memory Experiments
Clarke (1957) has presented evidence that a constant ratio rule holds for auditory signal identification experiments. That is, the subset of a large confusion matrix may be used to predict a smaller confusion matrix based on data gathered under identical conditions. Evidence is presented that the constant ratio rule also holds for confusion matrices derived from short‐term memory experiments. The 10 times 10 confusion matrix presented by Conrad (…
Jail Sentences for Driving While Intoxicated in Chicago
Excessive drinking is involved in over one-half of the motor vehicle associated fatalities in the United States (Department of Transportation, 1968). Various means have been suggested, and some tried, to curb these losses. In only a few cases have countermeasures against driving while intoxicated been subjected to scientifically acceptable evaluation as to effectiveness.In one such study, Barmack and Payne (1964b) used an information program with…
The Pursuit of Knowledge
Systems of Analysis, Technology Assessment, and Bureaucratic Power
The Management and Utilization of R&D
Social Science Information and Public Policy Making
Howard Davis's Writings
Writing this article for a special issue of Knowledge honoring Howie Davis has been a bittersweet experience Sweet because of how much I learn each time I read Howie's work. Bitter because of the fact that he is no longer here to contribute to the many endeavors of which he was apart He was a strong supporter of this journal from the time it was first conceived of. Howie Davis was very important to me from the time that I finished graduate school…
Change and Stability in Mental Health Policy
This article examines the development of mental health policy in the United States from 1945 to 1985. The mental health system has experienced two major transformations during this period. Data from interviews and records are used to analyze the impact of these changes on the development of policy and on delivery of services at the federal, state, and local levels of government
Information Selection in the House of Representatives
This article focuses on information selection in the United States House of Representatives. It asks, "Is the selection process in the House similar to the information selection process in other organizations?" Information selection fills three primary roles: an informing role, a supportive role, and a legitimizing role. The latter two roles may be more important in the House than in other organizations, since it is a more political setting. The …
Federal Policy and Knowledge Utilization Issues for the New Decade
Knowledge Creation, Diffusion, and Utilization
This article provides an assessment of the fields of knowledge creation, diffusion, and utilization from the perspective of the founding editor of this journal. Where are researchers in the development of this area of inquiry? What are some of the critical agenda items for the future ? The article argues that the field faces the following issues: a crisis of legitimacy, a lack of theory development, problems in measurement of the phenomena being …
Change of Editor
The Future of Health Policy
Measuring knowledge utilization
Just the Facts, Ma'am”
An important dimension of the future of fact is the status of political facts in research on public opinion. Analyzing the public's factual knowledge about public policy is central to addressing citizen competence yet more problematic than scholars have acknowledged. To show this, the authors first summarize a study of theirs that uses typical measures of citizens' information. In a survey of Illinois citizens, they measured factual perceptions a…
Community food security
The shaping of collective values through deliberative democracy
Misinformation and the Currency of Democratic Citizenship
Scholars have documented the deficiencies in political knowledge among American citizens. Another problem, misinformation, has received less attention. People are misinformed when they confidently hold wrong beliefs. We present evidence of misinformation about welfare and show that this misinformation acts as an obstacle to educating the public with correct facts. Moreover, wide-spread misinformation can lead to collective preferences that are fa…
Rationality and Use of Information in Policy Decisions
In the field of knowledge acquisition, dissemination, and utilization/impact, few studies have examined the appropriateness of rational actor theories as a theoretical framework. Rather, the rational actor perspective has been simply taken for granted as a relevant analytical tool for explaining the use of information in policymaking. This article singles out one major set of assumptions imbedded in rational actor theories, those dealing with inf…
The Political Environment and Citizen Competence
care reform, we find that performance depends heavily on environmental conditions. A combination of general information with increased motivation to act responsibly improves aggregate performance. An extremely favorable environment not only enhances performance, but it even eliminates the effects of individual differences in education and political sophistication. The analysis points toward reforming structures that shape the political environmen…
Social Science Information and Public Policy Making
A survey of federal officials reveals the belief that government should make the fullest possible use of social science information-and yet most of the information developed by social scientists winds up in specialized libraries or data banks, where it remains unused. Why don't public officials make greater use of the information social scientists develop? What can social scientists do to ensure that their findings are used? To answer these and r…
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