Dissonance and decision-making mistakes in the age of risk

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6289914
AutoresRyan Beasley, Ryan K Beasley (0000-0001-7928-6504, University of St Andrews, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen23
Número5
Páginas771-787
Fecha de publicación2016-05-27
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13501763.2015.1127276
OpenAlexW2282702174
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas65

Scholars of public and foreign policy have emphasized the role of decision processes in the creation of policy failures and fiascos and have demonstrated the importance that psychological factors play in policy mistakes. Using Ulrich Beck's notion of world risk society and drawing on advances in our understanding of a key psychological factor central to decision-making pathologies – cognitive dissonance – this contribution explores the ways in which features of the risk era could alter important decision dynamics and increase decision-making mistakes. In combination with the catastrophic potential of world risk society, this would suggest an increase in the frequency of policy-making fiascos. Bridging the gap between the ‘macro’ conditions of globalization and the ‘micro’ processes of decision-making also challenges our conception of both the nature and sources of policy-making mistakes and suggests that our scholarly understanding of ‘decision-making mistakes’ may need rethinking

Business decision mapping · Cognitive dissonance · Decision analysis · Decision engineering · Decision fatigue · Economic growth · Economics · Globalization · Political science · Positive economics · Public policy · Risk society · Social science · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology