Maurer School of Law: Indiana University Digital Repository @ Maurer Law Articles by Maurer Faculty Faculty Scholarship 1994 The National Information Infrastructure: Policymaking and Policymakers Fred H. Cate Indiana University Maurer School of Law,
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[email protected]. The National Information Infrastructure: Policymaking and Policymakers by Fred H. Cate Information policymaking needs to INTRODUCTION rc 1.ul&tuL V mation policymaking-the vital hite House role played by information in Communications policy- from the I, I modem society, the diversity of making in the United States is and mon from the issues that information products complex and unfocused. It is de- and services present, and the pro- scribedby its acolytes as "an often issues at,dexperts liferation of information-related paralyzing task," "an endless pol- invo lv d in the policymakers-and the extent to 2 3anda icy loop," a "tangled web," which the Administratibn has re- "regulatory round robin."4 po licymak !ngprocess sponded by narrowing and cen- Yet the extension from com- tralizing its policymaking inqui- munications to information poli- ry.