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- Provides a thorough and technical review of theoretical approaches to decision-making
- Contributes to a rethinking of some basic notions of political science
- Presents a plausible framework for modeling political cognition and decision-making
- Provides a reliable and realistic knowledge acquisition strategy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 21)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Foundations
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Front Matter
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Data Analysis
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Keywords
- Approaches to Decision-Making
- Behavioral Decision Analysis
- Decision-Making Within Institutions
- Decision-Support System for Judges
- Decision-Support Systems
- Decisions and Institutions
- 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
Authors and Affiliations
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Constitutional Law and Political Science, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Joan-Josep Vallbé
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Frameworks for Modeling Cognition and Decisions in Institutional Environments
Book Subtitle: A Data-Driven Approach
Authors: Joan-Josep Vallbé
Series Title: Law, Governance and Technology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9427-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9426-8Published: 03 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0112-7Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9427-5Published: 15 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2352-1902
Series E-ISSN: 2352-1910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 232
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, Political Science, Fundamentals of Law, Public Administration, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Legal Aspects of Computing