Politics and the Architecture of Choice: Bounded Rationality and Governance

By Bryan D. Jones. 2001

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Interpreting Performance Information: Motivated Reasoning or Unbiased Comprehension (2016, background): “However, even when actors intend to be rational and believe that they are, the assumption of perfect rationality is not descriptively realistic (Jones 2001, 54ﬀ .”
Analyzing collective action (2010, background): “A broader theory of human behavior views humans as adaptive creatures (Jones, 2001) who attempt to do as well as they can given the constraints of the situations in which they find themselves (or the ones that they seek out) (Simon, 1955, 1957, 1999).”
The political use of knowledge in the policy process (2015, background): “In the policy process, this is largely accomplished through organizational structures and hierarchies (Jones 2001).”
Wildfire Management in the United States: The Evolution of a Policy Failure (2004, background): “…of bounded rationality therefore indicates that policy decisions will often be characterized by selective attention to relevant information, creating the potential for policy errors ( Jones, 1994, 2001; Lindblom, 1959; Ostrom, Gardner, & Walker, 1994; Sabatier, 1999; Simon, 1947, 1982, 1985).”
Understanding Street‐Level Bureaucrats' Decision Making: Determining Eligibility in the Social Security Disability Program (2010, background): “…Ideology Th e theory of bounded rationality predicts that the political ideology of street-level bureaucrats should infl uence decision making because it infl uences how bureaucrats will interpret information, especially in bureaucracies with multiple or vague missions (Jones 2001; Wilson 1989).”