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Failures of Power and Intelligence

Use of Scientific-Technical Information in Government Decision Making

Uday Desai

Southern Illinois University

Michael M. Crow

Southern Illinois University

This article assesses the nonuse of scientific-technical information in energy research and development decision making and identifies major conditions and constraints that account for it. It is a study of the Coalcon project, the first federal attempt to demonstrate a synthetic fossil energy technology. The concepts of a failure of power and a failure of intelligence are used to explain the failure to use available technical information in the Coalcon decision. Consequences of crisis on an organization `s use of information are elaborated on.

Administration & Society, Vol. 15, No. 2, 185-206 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/009539978301500202
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