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Jacobs, Alan. "A Matter of Trust: Cognition, Institutions, and the Sources of Credible Commitment" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40393_index.html>

Jacobs, A. M. , 2005-09-01 "A Matter of Trust: Cognition, Institutions, and the Sources of Credible Commitment" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40393_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: A large and growing literature has focused attention on the broad problem of commitment in political life. Typically, the conditions that make commitments credible are viewed as a matter of structure: of whether institutions are configured in ways that bind the hands of current and future actors. In this paper, I argue that the credibility of commitments should instead be theorized as a matter of perception – as an instance of the broader problem of how actors make judgments under uncertainty. The paper makes a case for grounding the analysis of credibility in a cognitively plausible model of how decision-makers process information and form assessments of risk. Borrowing from literatures on ideas in politics and on cognition, I theorize that perceptions of credibility are substantially shaped by the frames and historical experiences readily available to political actors in a given context. The paper tests the plausibility of this framework through an analysis of multiple episodes of pension policy making in Germany and the United States.

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