ERC Consolidator Grant · 2021
Politicians under Radical Uncertainty: How Uncertain Phenomena Influence Political Elites' Behavior
Political elites-political representatives who can take binding decisions, e.g. ministers, parliamentarians, local politicians-face numerous radically uncertain phenomena, from Covid-19 to the long-term effects of Brexit. Radical uncertainty is characterized by manifold unknowns, ambiguity and vagueness, and it differs fundamentally from resolvable uncertainty, those situations in which it is possible to assign probabilities to outcomes, like the electoral consequences of welfare retrenchment. RADIUNCE will explore how these phenomena influence political elites' behavior. Do they "avoid" uncertainty, as some did with the coronavirus; use rules of thumb, "heuristics", e.g. comparing Covid-19…
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