ABSTRACT
People in contemporary society are surrounded by information about aspects of public life. The media-including newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and the Internet-offer many stories every day about politics and government at the international, national, state, regional, and local levels. It would seem that people would be saturated with information about the public sector. Readers of this book have by definition more than an ordinary interest in public-sector matters, so we might expect them to be quite knowledgeable about government.
