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1. Powell, Sonja C., "An Analysis of Congressional Process based on the Work of Karl W. Deutsch: A System Dynamics Model"

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Document
Date Created:
1985
Collection:
System Dynamic Society Records
Collecting Area:
University Archives
Collection ID:
ua435
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Description:
In The Nerves of Government (1963), Karl W. Deutsch postulated the crucial problems of "steering" and of the "creative intelligence function" - the ability to invent and carry out fundamentally new policies to meet new conditions, the ability to combine items of information into new patterns so as to find and recognize relevant new solutions - that increasingly confront government institutions and that constitute an essential aspect of the decision- and policy-making processes on which the political system may depend. This paper is an initial effort to conceive a System Dynamics (S/D) model of the U.S. Congressional system from this perspective, to promote further investigation of Deutsch's work in this area, and thus to effect appropriate change in Congressional institutional structure and function in this respect.