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 inBounded Rationality and Politics p. 1
Main Author JONATHAN BENDOR
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of California Press 01.04.2010
Edition1
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Applied psychology
Applied sciences
Axioms
Behavioral economics
Behavioral sciences
Bounded rationality
Cognitive processes
Cognitive psychology
Consumer psychology
Cutting tools
Economic theory
Economics
Education
Epistemology
Formal education
Foundations of education
Freshwater economics
Government
Heuristics
Learning
Learning theory
Mathematical expressions
Mathematics
Outcomes of education
Pedagogy
Philosophy
Political science
Problem solving
Prospect theory
Psychology
Public administration
Public policy
Rational choice theory
Reason
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Technology
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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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