ABSTRACT
The ambitious nature of recommendations made is somewhat surprising, since the general expectation is that policy maintains the status quo, or at most, calls for a small amount of change in limited areas. Little association was found between demand, information costs, and the types of recommendations made. The regulative policy sets are those that contain mostly regulative recommendations and ends, based upon dichotomizing the overall index of policy. Actually, the policy outcomes of Robert Salisbury and John Heinz are more applicable to what are called policy results—presidential and congressional response. Policy outcomes, measured by the overall index of recommendations, seemingly are not related to demand, information, or sector. Instead of the use of commissions to tap the opinions of elite groups in general, and of the corporate-governmental elite in particular, there was a closing off of the inputs that those representatives might offer to the policymaking process subsequent to the creation of a commission.
