Historical Analogies and the Cognitive Dimension of Domestic Policymaking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6337261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Patrick Houghton (University of Essex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 279-303 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-895X • E-ISSN: 1467-9221 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/0162-895x.00105 |
| OpenAlex | W2057478876 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 32 |
Established models of the domestic policymaking process accord some role to the individual decision‐maker, but they usually fail to show how policy decisions are ultimately influenced by the character of the information available to the policymakers concerned. Drawing on one prominent model of decision‐making developed by analysts of foreign policy—the analogical reasoning approach—this article proposes that individual‐level approaches are most useful in domestic policy analysis where decision‐makers must confront a discrete policy “episode” in which perceived levels of cognitive uncertainty and ambiguity are high. An analysis of decision‐making by political leaders during the 1967 Detroit riots reveals that these leaders made widespread use of historical analogies at various stages of the policymaking process. Policymakers can probably be expected to rely on analogizing under circumstances and contexts that make cognitive demands similar to those observed in the Detroit case
Ambiguity · Cognition · Decision maker · Dimension (graph theory · Economics · Foreign policy · Management science · Motivated reasoning · Policy analysis · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Process (computing · Sociology · Computer Science · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Psychology · Public Policy and Administration Research
Outbreak of war memories? Historical analogies of the 1990s wars in discourses about the coronavirus pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia
When a historical analogy fails
Looking forward to the past
Once bitten, twice shy
The Use of Historical Analogy in the 2017 Parliamentary Debates on the Future of Post-Brexit Commonwealth Trade
Distinction, Necessity, and Proportionality
Living in History*”
Analogical reasoning and policymaking
Germany's participation in the Kosovo war
Analysing the Policy Process in Democratic Spain
The Case for Metaphor in Political Reasoning and Cognition
The Past in the Present—The Role of Analogical Reasoning in Epistemic Learning About How to Tackle Complex Policy Problems
The Behavioral Revolution and International Relations
Looking Back to Move Forward
The Meaning and Measure of Policy Metaphors
When Knowledge Is Power
Analogies at War
State Structures and the Possibilities for “Keynesian” Responses to the Great Depression in Sweden, Britain, and the United States
Schema induction and analogical transfer
Analogical problem solving
Learning from Samples of One or Fewer
Structure‐Mapping
Organizational Learning
Judgment under Uncertainty
Policy change and learning
Learning in U.S. and Soviet Foreign Policy
Perception and Misperception in International Politics
Violence in the Model City
The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson
An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein
The lessons of learning
Cross-National Sources of Regulatory Policymaking in Europe and the United States
Modern social politics in Britain and Sweden
Learning, Realism, and Alliances
Can Governments Learn? American Foreign Policy and Central American Revolutions
Political Conflict and Lesson-Drawing
How States Utilize Foreign Evidence
Sleeping with an Elephant
Learning and foreign policy
The Role of Analogical Reasoning in Novel Foreign-Policy Situations
Seeing the past in the present
Toward Better Theories of the Policy Process
What is Lesson-Drawing
Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2022 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |