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Good Advice: Information and Policy Making in the White House.(Review) (book review)

American Political Science Review,  March, 2001  by Rudalevige, Andrew

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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.

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 institutionalism have stressed information by highlighting the roles institutions play in ameliorating the uncertainty rampant in ...

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