The FCC and the Politics of Cable TV Regulation, 1952-1980: Organizational Learning and Policy Development
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See Streeter, Selling the Air, 94–140. These meta-narratives, however, are a much broader species of ideas than those considered in this study.
32. Hugh Heclo, Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden: From Relief to Income Maintenance(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974), 305.
33. Ibid., 306.
34. Jack S. Levy, “Learning and Foreign Policy: Sweeping a Conceptual Minefield,” International Organization 48 (1994): 279–312; David Patrick Houghton, “The Role of Analogical Reasoning in Novel Foreign Policy Situations,” British Journal of Political Science 26 (1996): 523–552; Michael J. Oliver, Whatever Happened to Monetarism?: Social Learning and Macroeconomic Policymaking in the United Kingdom since 1979 (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1997).
35. Paul A. Sabatier and Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, eds., Policy Change and Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993).
36. M. Leann Brown, Michael Kenney, and Michael Zarkin, Organizational Learning in the Global Context (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006).
37. Ibid. This conclusion emerges from a broad reading of the studies in Brown, Kenney, and Zarkin, eds., Organizational Learning in the Global Context.
38. Here, I simply draw on the old adage that “policy determines politics.” Many scholars have developed “policy typologies” in which they suggest that the nature of any given issue area will determine the structure of interest representation and institutional arrangements. See, in particular, Theodore J. Lowi, “American Business, Public Policy, Case Studies, and Political Theory,” World Politics 16 (1964): 687–691; James Q. Wilson, Political Organizations (New York: Basic Books, 1973); William T. Gormley, “Regulatory Issue Networks in a Federal System,” Polity 18 (1986): 595–620.
39. Peter A. Hall, “Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State: The Case of Economic Policymaking in Britain,” Comparative Politics 25 (1993): 275–296; M. Leann Brown, “Scientific Uncertainty and Learning in European Union Environmental Policymaking,”