DECISION MAKING IN PUBLIC POLICY

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1 Syllabus DECISION MAKING IN PUBLIC POLICY Last update HU Credits: 2 Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master) Responsible Department: Public Policy and Government Academic year: 0 Semester: 1st Semester Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Dr.Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan Coordinator raanan.s-k@mail.huji.ac.il Coordinator Office Hours: Monday 12:30 Teaching Staff: Dr. Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan page 1 / 6

2 Course/Module description: Decision making is a key part in formulating and evaluating public policy. The purpose of the course is introducing normative and descriptive approaches to decision-making, with emphasis on the implications of the field to behavior in the public sphere. Course/Module aims: Introducing the normative and descriptive approaches for analyzing and understanding decision-making. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: 1. Exploring the normative approaches to decision-making. 2. Exploring the descriptive approaches to decision-making. 3. Understanding the implications of the field to behavior in the public sphere. Attendance requirements(%): 80% Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: The course combines critical and comparative studies of key models in the field, from different disciplines such as cognitive and social psychology, behavioral economics, political science, and organizational theory. Course/Module Content: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: Multi-valued decisions Lecture 3: bounded rationality Lecture 4: How we think: two systems Lecture 5: Heuristic and biases Lecture 6: Prospect Theory Lecture 7: Judgment of the future and the past Lecture 8: Social norms Lecture 9: Designing decisions Lecture 10: Health Policy Lecture 11: Economic Behavior Lecture 12: Ethical and environmental behavior Lecture 13: Attitudes and political behavior page 2 / 6

3 Required Reading: Books: Baron, Jonathan (2000) Thinking and Deciding, (3rd edition), Cambridge University Press Bazerrman, M. H. (1994) Judgment in Managerial Decision Making, (3rd ed.), New York: Wiley & Sons Kahneman, Daniel & Tversky Amos (Eds.) (2000) Choices, Values, and Frames, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press March, J. & Simon H. A. (1993) Organizations, (2nd edition) Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Morrow, James D. (1994) Game Theory for Political Scientists, Princeton: Princeton University Press Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein (2009) Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, London: Penguin Books Shafir, Eldar (Ed.) (2013) The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy, Princeton University Press כהנמן, דניאל ועמיתים, רציונאליות, הוגנות, אושר: מבחר מאמרים, בעריכת מיה בר-הלל, הוצאת אוניברסיטת חיפה וכתר, 2005 Lecture 1: Gilbert, Daniel Buried by Bad Decisions, Nature 474: Baron, chapter 10: pp Morrow, Chapter 2: pp , Lecture 2: Baron, chapter 14: Baron, chapter 5: pp Pearl, Judea Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference (2nd ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: pp Baron, chapter 19: pp Lecture 3: Jones, Bryan D. (2003) Bounded Rationality and Political Science: Lessons from Public Administration and Public Policy, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 13(4): Jones, Bryan D. and Baumgartner, Frank R A Model of Choice for Public Policy, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 15(3): Lecture 4: Evans, Jonathan St. B. T Dual-Processing Accounts of Reasoning, Judgment, and Social Cognition, Annual Review of Psychology 59: [pp ]. page 3 / 6

4 Slovic, Paul If I look at the mass I will never act: Psychic numbing and genocide, Judgment and Decision Making 2(2): Alter, Adam L., Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Nicholas Epley and Rebecca N. Eyre Overcoming Intuition: Metacognitive Difficulty Activates Analytic Reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology 136(4): Lecture 5: עמוס טברסקי ודניאל כהנמן, שיפוט בתנאי אי-ודאות, מתוך כהנמן (2005), עמ Baron, chapter 15: pp זמינות :(availability) עמוס טברסקי ודניאל כהנמן, שיפוט בתנאי אי-ודאות, מתוך כהנמן (2005), עמ Baron, chapter 6: pp ייצוגיות :(representativeness) עמוס טברסקי ודניאל כהנמן, שיפוט בתנאי אי-ודאות, מתוך כהנמן (2005), עמ Baron, chapter 6: pp הטיית סטטוס-קוו: Baron, chapter 12: pp הטיית ניתוק disjunction) (effect Tversky, A. and Shafir, E The Disjunction Effect in Choice under Uncertainty. Psychological Science 3: Lecture 6: דניאל כהנמן ועמוס טברסקי, בחירות, ערכים והיצגים, מתוך כהנמן (2005), פרק שלישי, עמ Quattrone and Tversky, Contrasting Rational and Psychological Analyses of Political Choice, in Kahneman and Tversky (2000). Camerer, Colin F Prospect Theory in the Wild, In Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (Eds.) Choices, Values and Frames, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Soroka, Stuart Good News and Bad News: Asymmetric Responses to Economic Information, Journal of Politics 68(2): Lecture 7: Frederick, S., G. Loewenstein and Ted ODonoghue (2002) Time Discounting and Time Preference: A Critical Review, Journal of Economic Literature, XL, Fischhoff, B Hindsight ` Foresight: the effect of outcome knowledge on judgment under uncertainty, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1: Lecture 8: Thaler & Sunstein Chapter 3. Fehr, Ernst and Urs Fischbacher The Nature of Human Altruism, Nature 425: Bazerman, Max H. and Francesca Gino Behavioral Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty. Annual Review of Law and Social page 4 / 6

5 Science 8: Lecture 9: Thaler, Richard, Cass Sunstein and John P. Balz Choice Architecture, in The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy, Eldar Shafir (Ed.), Princeton University Press, p Barr, Michael S., Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir Behaviorally Informed Regulation, in The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy, Eldar Shafir (Ed.), Princeton University Press, p Lecture 10: Johnson, Eric J. and Daniel Goldstein Do Defaults Save Lives?, Science 302: Redelmeier, Donald A Behavioral Decision Science Applied to Health-Care Policy, in The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy, Eldar Shafir (Ed.), Princeton University Press, p Lecture 11: Thaler & Sunstein Chapter 6 הבנה של עוני: Shah, Anuj K., Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir Some Consequences of Having Too Little. Science 338: Mani, Anandi, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Jiaying Zhao Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function, Science 341: Lecture 12: Shu, Lisa L., Nina Mazar, Francesca Gino, Dan Ariely, Max H. Bazerman Signing at the beginning makes ethics salient and decreases dishonest self-reports in comparison to sining at the end. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109(38): Weber, Elke U Doing the Right Thing Willingly: Using the Insights of Behavioral Decision Research for Better Environmental Decisions, in The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy, Eldar Shafir (Ed.), Princeton University Press, p Lecture 13: Bryan, Christopher J., Gregory M. Walton, Todd Rogers, and Carol S. Dweck Motivating voter turnout by invoking the self, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108(31): גיבוש העדפות מדיניות: Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Raanan and Eran Halperin Making a Difference: Political Efficacy and Policy Preference Construction. British Journal of Political Science 43(2): עמדות ביחס לקונפליקט קבוצתי: Halperin, Eran, Alexandra G. Russell, Kali H. Trzesniewski, James J. Gross, and Carol page 5 / 6

6 Powered by TCPDF ( S. Dweck Promoting the Peace Process by Changing Beliefs about Group Malleability, Science 333(6050): Additional Reading Material: Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 90 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 10 % Project work 0 % Assignments 0 % Reports 0 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 % Additional information: page 6 / 6