Problems of Cognition as a Challenge to Policy Analysts and Democratic Societies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6299773 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vincent Ostrom (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 243-262 |
| Publication date | 1990-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Theoretical Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-6298 • E-ISSN: 1460-3667 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0951692890002003001 |
| OpenAlex | W1980154269 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 5 |
Tocqueville offers an analysis of how cognitive limits and distortions are likely to place democracies at risk. Similar problems exist in policy analysis. Theoretical discourse, which increasingly distances itself from social reality, yields a large gap between theory and practice. A language which specifies elements and relationships for addressing multiple levels and units of analysis in analysing problematical situations and exploring alternative possibilities offers the prospect of being a better, though imperfect, tool for reckoning
Cognition · Democracy · Economics · Imperfect · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public economics · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Capital and Networks · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Polycentric Stakeholder Analysis
Metropolitan Governance
Public Choice, Public Administration, and Self-Governance
Dynamic Governance
Independent Regulatory Agencies and Their Reform
Conclusions
The Classical-Liberal Theory of Governance
Function, Structure, and Process at the Private-Public Interface
Public Administration and Public Choice
Heterogeneity, Co-production, and Polycentric Governance
Civic Competence, Self-Governance, and the New Epistocratic Paternalism
Public Governance and the Classical-Liberal Perspective
The Two Social Philosophies of Ostroms' Institutionalism
An institutional remedy for ethnic patronage politics
A Public Economy Approach to Education
A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,46 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2019 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |