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Information Revolutions
in such a way that a credible possibility of mass attention to them arises,
government officials tend to favor the interests of broad publics, even
at the expense of interested groups. In either case, policy and political
influence tend to flow to the best informed. The general principle is that
variation in the extent of pluralistic and majoritarian power in the United
States is explained by an information dynamic, and this dynamic rests
on what is essentially the tension between the politics of the second and
third information regimes.
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