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dc.contributor.authorBeasley, Ryan
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-18T23:31:55Z
dc.date.available2017-08-18T23:31:55Z
dc.date.issued2016-02-18
dc.identifier.citationBeasley , R 2016 , ' Dissonance and decision-making mistakes in the age of risk ' , Journal of European Public Policy , vol. 23 , no. 5 , pp. 771-787 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1127276en
dc.identifier.issn1350-1763
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 241587052
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 3f274055-c045-4aae-8393-547e761b48f2
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84958742438
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000372837500009
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-7928-6504/work/76386950
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11510
dc.description.abstractScholars of public and foreign policy have emphasized the role of decision processes in the creation of policy failures and fiascos and have demonstrated the importance that psychological factors play in policy mistakes. Using Ulrich Beck's notion of world risk society and drawing on advances in our understanding of a key psychological factor central to decision-making pathologies – cognitive dissonance – this contribution explores the ways in which features of the risk era could alter important decision dynamics and increase decision-making mistakes. In combination with the catastrophic potential of world risk society, this would suggest an increase in the frequency of policy-making fiascos. Bridging the gap between the ‘macro’ conditions of globalization and the ‘micro’ processes of decision-making also challenges our conception of both the nature and sources of policy-making mistakes and suggests that our scholarly understanding of ‘decision-making mistakes’ may need rethinking.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of European Public Policyen
dc.rightsCopyright 2016 Taylor and Francis. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1127276en
dc.subjectDecision-makingen
dc.subjectDissonanceen
dc.subjectFiascosen
dc.subjectMistakesen
dc.subjectRisken
dc.subjectJC Political theoryen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccJCen
dc.titleDissonance and decision-making mistakes in the age of risken
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of International Relationsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Global Law and Governanceen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1127276
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2017-08-18


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