Bounded rationality or policy fumble? Parliament and executive in the preparation of public policy

• Published in: Veftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
• Main Author: Kristinsson, Gunnar Helgi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Icelandic
• Published: Stjórnsýslustofnun 2013
• Subjects: Bounded rationality; agenda; analysis; decision making; Iceland; Scandinavia; Raunhæf skynsemi; dagskrá; greining; ákvarðanataka; Ísland; Skandinavía; Falla
• Online Access: http://www.irpa.is/article/view/a.2013.9.2.1; https://doi.org/10.13177/irpa.a.2013.9.2.1

The theory of bounded rationality regards rational policy making as a process which fulfils certain requirements with regard to agenda setting, fact finding and analysis and decision making which fulfils minimum requirements. This perspective is here applied to the preparatory stage of public policy...