@article{45dea11fd196437f9b837b3c9f95bd81,
title = "The politics of a paradigm shift: Telecommunications regulation and the communications revolution",
abstract = "IAs a result of the convergence of telecommunications and mass communications technologies, American policymakers face a series of critical decisions about infrastructural investment, technical architecture, and regulation that will determine the character of the U.S. electronic industrial base. This article develops the argument that the current policy trajectory will likely lead to some awkward choices. Powerful vested interests have distorted the communications policy process. Regulatory inertia has come to tie the hands of the regulators as well as the hands of industry leaders. We argue that there exists a critical opportunity for independent communications policy research to make a difference and to anticipate and facilitate a paradigm shift in telecommunications regulation.",
keywords = "Communications policy, Communications technology, Regulation, Telecommunications",
author = "Neuman, {W. Russell} and {Mc Knight}, Lee and Solomon, {Richard Jay}",
note = "Funding Information: In our view, to argue that American success in industry and technology over the past two centuries was based on governmental forbearance in economic matters is to misread history. The constitution, the federal legal code, and American case law attest otherwise. From the building of post roads, canals, and railways to the establishment of agricultural research stations and land grant universities and support of aviation by the National Civil Aviation Commission and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and from energy research through the Atomic Energy Commission and the Energy Department to health research in the National Institutes of Health, basic research in the National Science Foundation, and large-scale research and development of advanced technologies with possible defense applications, the U.S. government has influenced, ignored, picked, delayed, built, designed, invented, and made happen an extraordinarily large portion of our technical infrastructure (Neuman, McKnight, & Solomon, in press).",
year = "1993",
doi = "10.1080/10584609.1993.9962964",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "10",
pages = "77--94",
journal = "Political Communication",
issn = "1058-4609",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "1",
}