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371 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 1 (1967)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0371 and id is 1 raw text is: A New Orientation in American Government By BERTRAM M. GROSS and MICHAEL SPRINGER 1 ABSTRACT: The variety of approaches and subjects in this volume reflects the information explosion in social indicators. Current expansion of social indicator activity has been given impetus by: (1) the growing awareness of the contributions and limitations of economic information; (2) the implementa- tion of the Planning-Programming-Budgeting System within the federal government; and (3) specific proposals for in- creased utilization of social information, such as the Technol- ogy Commission's call for social accounting, annual Social Reports of the President, and a Full Opportunity and Social Accounting Act. Normative concerns require that our data system remain unsystematic, with promotion of both multiple sources and dissonance. Furthermore, the development and use of social information should not be thought of solely in executive agency terms-there is a creative role for Congress in this area. Bertram M. Gross, Syracuse, New York, is Professor of Political Science and Direc- tor, National Planning Studies Program, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. He has been Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1961-1962); Executive Secretary of the President's Council of Economic Advisers; Member of Arlington County Planning Commission and North- ern Virginia Regional Planning Commission; and First Chairman of the National Capital Regional Planning Council in the United States. He is the author of The State of the Nation: Social Systems Accounting (1966) ; The Managing of Organiza- tions (1964); and The Legislative Struggle (1953). Michael Springer, Syracuse, New York, is Graduate Assistant, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. 1 Michael Marien, graduate research assistant at Syracuse University, has helped in preparing this article. The assistance of the Stern Family Fund is acknowledged for having helped the special editor in producing these two volumes and also for having facilitated the convening of special exploration-and-review sessions on many of the articles. Acknowl- edgment must also be made of the ideas, encouragement, and stimulus provided by the participants in these sessions: Albert D. Biderman, Bureau of Social Science Research; Alfred Blumstein, Institute for Defense Analyses; Michel Chevalier, University of Pennsyl- vania; Albert Cohen, University of Connecticut; John Dixon, Basic Systems, Xerox Corp.; Julius C. C. Edelstein, C.U.N.Y.; William Ehling, Syracuse University; Nathan Goldman, Syracuse University; Robert W. Gregg, Syracuse University; William G. Grigsby, University of Pennsylvania; Jack B. Haskins, Syracuse University; Michael Harrington, League for Industrial Democracy; Moyomo Ise, Crusade for Opportunity, Syracuse; Joe Kappel, Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare; Gerald J. Karaska, Syracuse University; Andrew 1

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