Bounded Rationality in Budgetary Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3329307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John F Padgett (Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 354-372 |
| Publication date | 1980-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1960632 |
| OpenAlex | W2085721224 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 93 |
| References cited | 22 |
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
Bounded function · Bounded rationality · Economics · Epistemology · Incrementalism · Microeconomics · Operationalization · Operations research · Political science · Rationality · Accounting and Organizational Management · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Law · Mathematics · Public Policy and Administration Research
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The federal budget's core and periphery
Long-run and short-run budgeting
Goals and budgets
Introduction
Hierarchy and Ecological Control in Federal Budgetary Decision Making
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Bureaucratic Performance and Control in British Politics
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Stability and change in the public’s policy agenda
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Bounded rationality and public policy
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Waste, weapons, and resolve
The negotiated guilty plea
Methodological Options for an Integrated Perspective on Organization
Talk is not cheap
A Conceptual History of the Emergence of Bounded Rationality
Policy Punctuations
Network Analysis
Complexity, Capacity, and Budget Punctuations
A Model of Choice for Public Policy
Bounded Rationality and Political Science
Presidents, Congress, and Policy Outcomes
An Integrated Theory of Budgetary Politics and Some Empirical Tests
Stochastic Process Methods with an Application to Budgetary Data
Noah and Joseph Effects in Government Budgets
The Tortoise or the Hare? Incrementalism, Punctuations, and Their Consequences
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The Perfect is the Enemy of the Best
Incremental Budgeting
Policy Punctuations in Mature Welfare States
Performance Gaps and Managerial Decisions
The Dynamic Model of Choice for Public Policy Reconsidered
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Stability and Punctuations in Public Spending
Policy Stability and Organizational Performance
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Representative systems and policy punctuations
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Bounded Rationality
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A General Empirical Law of Public Budgets
The Institutional Dynamics of Policy Administration
Does Incrementalism Stem from Political Consensus or from Institutional Gridlock
The New Economics of Organization
Formal Models of Bureaucracy
Democracy, rationality and advanced technologies
Punctuated Budgets and Governors’ Institutional Powers
Causality in Political Networks
The Policy Consequences of Motivated Information Processing Among the Partisan Elite
Coping with Uncertainty
An Adaptive Model of Bureaucratic Politics
A Model of Muddling Through
Adaptive Signal Processing, Hierarchy, and Budgetary Control in Federal Regulation
The Miracles of Bookkeeping
Essays in positive economics
Human problem solving
A Strategy of Decision
A behavioral theory of the firm
Operationalizing Incrementalism
A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice
The Myth of Incrementalism
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Linear models in decision making
A Theory of the Budgetary Process
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| Unique citing works | 93 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,07 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2026 (46) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 93 |