PSCI 3325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Microsoft Onenote, Decision-Making, Bounded Rationality
27 Jan 2017
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Tuesday, september 13, 2016 12:07 pm: descriptive, explanatory, predictive models. A way of thinking about it to allow us to focus on what is important. Tend to associate with lots of statistics and math, but conceptually just reducing to an essence. Different kinds of models with different uses. Often the best we can really do is explanatory. Trying to nd the outcome of things and the reason why it happened. Describing something in its most important elements. Purely descriptive, organizing the process of making policy. Agenda setting: descriptive model, the stages model, how do things make it onto the agenda in the rst place, for most areas of policy, it can be dif cult. Legitimation / adoption: where did the policy proposals come from, the stage most people think of, congress passes a law, the epa creates a regulation, translation of a proposal to a binding legal affect. Is there more to be done: explanatory model, predictive model.
