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Democratic Values and Technological Choices. (book reviews)

American Political Science Review,  December, 1993  by Southwell, Priscilla L.

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Stuart Hill has successfully used concepts from cognitive social psychology, specifically schema theory, to construct a more accurate explanation of citizen assessment of technological choices--referred to as "social process" theory. He has produced a superior piece of public policy analysis by filling in the lacunae in previous research on citizen assessment without rejecting such analyses entirely.

He uses the past-structured assumption of prescriptive analysis as a baseline. He never dismisses it entirely; in fact, his chapter on political veterans actually does much to ...

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