the bounded rationality and overall muddle of keyword search
Information Science | Policy Science | Database Search | Keyword Search | Academic Journal Articles | Finding | Keywords | MissingSubmitted by aaron on Tue, 2007/12/04 - 3:40am.
Circa 2003, while studying policy 'sciences' as a new grad student, I was introduced to the concept of the policy 'muddle'.
Rather than fostering expectations of rational and scientific decision and policy-making, the author and professor were introducing us to the pragmatic, glaring disjuncture between the idealized 'policy process' and the real-world situations that range from successes, through 'muddles', to 'disasters, failures, etc.'
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