Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments

A Data-Driven Approach
Buch | Hardcover
232 Seiten
2014
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-017-9426-8 (ISBN)

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Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments - Joan-Josep Vallbé
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Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments
This book deals with the theoretical, methodological, and empirical implications of bounded rationality in the operation of institutions. It focuses on decisions made under uncertainty, and presents a reliable strategy of knowledge acquisition for the design and implementation of decision-support systems. Based on the distinction between the inner and outer environment of decisions, the book explores both the cognitive mechanisms at work when actors decide, and the institutional mechanisms existing among and within organizations that make decisions fairly predictable.

While a great deal of work has been done on how organizations act as patterns of events for (boundedly) rational decisions, less effort has been devoted to study under which circumstances  organizations cease to act as such reliable mechanisms. Through an empirical strategy on open-ended response data from a survey among junior judges, the work pursues two main goals. The first one is to explore the limits of “institutional rationality” of the Spanish lower courts on-call service, an optimal scenario to observe decision-making under uncertainty. The second aim is to achieve a better understanding of the kind of uncertainty under which inexperienced decision-makers work. This entails exploring the demands imposed by problems and the knowledge needed to deal with them, making this book also a study on expertise achievement in institutional environments.

This book combines standard multivariate statistical methods with machine learning techniques such as multidimensional scaling and topic models, treating text as data. Doing so, the book contributes to the collaboration between empirical social scientific approaches and the community of scientists that provide the set of tools and methods to make sense of the fastest growing resource of our time: data.

Joan-Josep Vallbé is a political scientist. He works with social and computer scientists, urban designers, and legal professionals, on how to model, measure, and analyze the interaction between citizens and variation in their environment. Change may occur in micro-level contexts such as problem spaces in choice situations or in macro-level phenomena such as metropolitan growth or the regulatory environment. His recent affiliations include the University of Barcelona, and the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam.

Foreword; Pompeu Casanovas and Pablo Noriega.- Acknowledgements.- 1 Introduction.- Part I Foundations.- 2 Decisions and organizations.- 3 Bounded rationality and organizations.- Part II Data Analysis.- 4 Empirical context.- 5 Representing organizational uncertainty.- 6 Conclusions and further work.- Index.

Reihe/Serie Law, Governance and Technology Series ; 21
Zusatzinfo 9 Illustrations, color; 22 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 232 p. 31 illus., 9 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik
Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht IT-Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Medienrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte Approaches to Decision-Making • Behavioral Decision Analysis • Decision-Making Within Institutions • Decisions and Institutions • Decision-Support System for Judges • Decision-support Systems • Design and Implementation of Knowledge-Based Systems • Empirical Approach to Decision-Makers • Enhanced Decision-Making • Institutional Decision-Making • Interaction Between Rationality and Institutions • Knowledge Acquisition • Knowledge Acquisition Strategy • Models of Decision Making • New Institutionalism • On-Call Service in Judicial Settings • Quantitative Text Analysis • Strategy for Knowledge Acquisition • Theory of Human Rationality
ISBN-10 94-017-9426-X / 940179426X
ISBN-13 978-94-017-9426-8 / 9789401794268
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