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Adopting a certain model for policy-formation, one may impute to a stable region of the political system an issue-machine, i. e., the analogue of a computer, with a program in place for processing issues. The ‘computer’ will consist of a network of agencies or stations, public or private. The program will call upon them (perhaps repeatedly) in a certain sequence and (giving effect to their reactions) round by round process issues of a given sort in much the same way, with much the same results.
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Braybrooke, D. (1978). Policy-Formation with Issue-Processing and Transformation of Issues. In: Hooker, C.A., Leach, J.J., McClennen, E.F. (eds) Foundations and Applications of Decision Theory. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 13b. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9792-9_1
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