Bounded Rationality
In: Annual review of political science, Band 2, S. 297-322
ISSN: 1094-2939
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In: Annual review of political science, Band 2, S. 297-322
ISSN: 1094-2939
In: Annual review of political science, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 297-321
ISSN: 1545-1577
▪ Abstract Findings from behavioral organization theory, behavioral decision theory, survey research, and experimental economics leave no doubt about the failure of rational choice as a descriptive model of human behavior. But this does not mean that people and their politics are irrational. Bounded rationality asserts that decision makers are intendedly rational; that is, they are goal-oriented and adaptive, but because of human cognitive and emotional architecture, they sometimes fail, occasionally in important decisions. Limits on rational adaptation are of two types: procedural limits, which limit how we go about making decisions, and substantive limits, which affect particular choices directly. Rational analysis in institutional contexts can serve as a standard for adaptive, goal-oriented human behavior. In relatively fixed task environments, such as asset markets or elections, we should be able to divide behavior into adaptive, goal-oriented behavior (that is, rational action) and behavior that is a consequence of processing limits, and we should then be able to measure the deviation. The extent of deviation is an empirical issue. These classes are mutually exclusive and exhaustive, and they may be examined empirically in situations in which actors make repeated similar choices.
In: Journal of economic dynamics & control, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 205-230
ISSN: 0165-1889
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"Bounded Rationality in Public Administration" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Zeuthen lecture book series
In: Journal of economic dynamics & control, Band 20, Heft 5, S. 811-817
ISSN: 0165-1889
In: Decisions in economics and finance: a journal of applied mathematics, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 327-346
ISSN: 1129-6569, 2385-2658
AbstractThis note in the Milestones series is dedicated to the paper "A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice", written by Herbert Simon and published in 1955 on the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
In: Economica, Band 62, Heft 245, S. 134
In: The Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy 6
In: Wildavsky Forum Ser. v.6
In Bounded Rationality and Politics, Jonathan Bendor considers two schools of behavioral economics-the first guided by Tversky and Kahneman's work on heuristics and biases, which focuses on the mistakes people make in judgment and choice; the second as described by Gerd Gigerenzer's program on fast and frugal heuristics, which emphasizes the effectiveness of simple rules of thumb. Finding each of these radically incomplete, Bendor's illuminating analysis proposes Herbert Simon's pathbreaking work on bounded rationality as a way to reconcile the inconsistencies between the two camps. Bendor sho
In: The Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy, 6
In Bounded Rationality and Politics, Jonathan Bendor considers two schools of behavioral economics--the first guided by Tversky and Kahneman's work on heuristics and biases, which focuses on the mistakes people make in judgment and choice; the second as described by Gerd Gigerenzer's program on fast and frugal heuristics, which emphasizes the effectiveness of simple rules of thumb. Finding each of these radically incomplete, Bendor's illuminating analysis proposes Herbert Simon's pathbreaking work on bounded rationality as a way to reconcile the inconsistencies between the two camps. Bendor sho.
In: American political science review, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 354-372
ISSN: 0003-0554
ARTICLE OPERATIONALIZES TWO BOUNDED RATIONALITY THEORIES OF FEDERAL BUDGETARY DECISIONMAKING AND TESTS THEM WITHIN A STOCHASTIC PROCESS FRAMEWORK. EMPIRICAL ANALYSES OF EISENHOWER, KENNEDY AND JOHNSON DOMESTIC BUDGET DATA, COMPILED FROM OMB PLANNING DOCUMENTS, SUPPORT THE THEORY OF SERIAL JUDGEMENT OVER THE THEORY OF INCREMENTALISM. METHODOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS OF THE THEORIES ARE ALSO DISCUSSED.
In: American political science review, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 354-372
ISSN: 1537-5943
Two bounded rationality theories of federal budgetary decision making are operationalized and tested within a stochastic process framework. Empirical analyses of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson domestic budget data, compiled from internal Office of Management and Budget planning documents, support the theory of serial judgment over the theory of incrementalism proposed by Davis, Dempster and Wildavsky. The new theory highlights both the structure of ordered search through a limited number of discrete alternatives and the importance of informal judgmental evaluations. Serial judgment theory predicts not only that most programs most of the time will receive allocations which are only marginally different from the historical base, but also that occasional radical and even "catastrophic" changes are the normal result of routine federal budgetary decision making. The methodological limitations of linear regression techniques in explanatory budgetary research are also discussed.
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