Cognitive Policy Works

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= Cognitive Policy Works is centrally concerned with the cognitive dimension of particular material policies and how the cognitive dimension — the often-unstated ideas behind material policies—shapes those policies.

URL = http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/


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Cognitive policy is about the values and ideas that both motivate the policy goals and that have to be uppermost in the minds of the public and the media in order for the policy to seem so much a matter of common sense that it will be readily accepted.

Cognitive Policy Works is centrally concerned with the cognitive dimension of particular material policies and how the cognitive dimension — the often-unstated ideas behind material policies—shapes those policies. We are especially concerned with how change in those ideas point toward material policy changes.

But there is a deeper aspect to cognitive policy—general cognitive policy: strategies for getting high-level ideas—values, frames and principles — to dominate public discourse and shape public understanding so that future material policies will be natural and win public support with ease. This requires inputs from the cognitive and behavioral sciences to ensure that political operations engage with people in ways that reflect the workings of the mind." (http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/resource-center/cognitive-policy/)