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- Title
Policy persistence, risk estimation and policy underreaction.
- Authors
Maor, Moshe
- Abstract
In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in our understanding of policy persistence, on the one hand, and of the psychological phenomenon of underreaction, on the other. Surprisingly, there has been no attempt to use robust findings, derived from these efforts, in order to understand the nuances of policy underreaction. Policy underreaction refers to systematically slow and/or insufficient response by policymakers to increased risk or opportunity, or no response at all. This article tries to give the concept of policy underreaction a robust analytical identity by integrating cognitive, social, psychological and emotional variables in the explanation of policy underreaction and by introducing a variation across different types of contextual sources of policy persistence as explanatory variables of this phenomenon. It develops an analytical framework that revolves around two key elements of decision making in situations of risk unfolding over time: (1) policymakers' underestimation and accurate estimation of increased risks and (2) intra- and extra-organizational sources of policy persistence. Based on these dimensions, the article identifies and illustrates four distinct modes of policy underreaction which reflect differences in the nature of implemented policy.
- Subjects
POLICY science research; DECISION making &; psychology; POLICY scientists; POLICY sciences -- Methodology; BOUNDED rationality; RISK assessment; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Policy Sciences, 2014, Vol 47, Issue 4, p425
- ISSN
0032-2687
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11077-014-9203-8