Introduction
There are two main orientations toward bounded rationality (BR) in political science. The first orientation sees the glass as half full, emphasizing that decision makers often manage to do “reasonably well”—even in complex tasks—despite their cognitive limitations. Virtually all of Simon’s work and...
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Published in | Bounded Rationality and Politics p. 1 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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University of California Press
01.04.2010
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Edition | 1 |
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Summary: | There are two main orientations toward bounded rationality (BR) in political science. The first orientation sees the glass as half full, emphasizing that decision makers often manage to do “reasonably well”—even in complex tasks—despite their cognitive limitations. Virtually all of Simon’s work and also the theory of “muddling through” (Lindblom 1959; Braybrooke and Lindblom 1963) belong to this branch, which we can call the problem-solving approach. In the second orientation the glass is half empty: the emphasis is on how people make mistakes even in simple tasks. Most of the research on heuristics and biases, following Tversky and |
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ISBN: | 9780520259461 0520259467 |