Structural and Decision-Making Models: A Political Example

political decision making

The decisions of a country’s top-level political leaders are often profoundly consequential; they can have implications for social order and justice, economic prosperity and growth, and war and peace. What do the decision processes of these leaders look like? How are problems identified? How are choices made? To address these questions is to confront a problem: analysts have only limited access...

A consensus model of political decision-making

In this paper, a model of political consensus is introduced. Parties try to reach consensus in forming a government. A government is defined as a pair consisting of a winning coalition and a policy supported by this coalition, where a policy consists of policies on given issues. A party evaluates all governments the party belongs to with respect to some criteria. We allow the criteria to be of ...

Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making

In this paper we characterize firms’ lifetimes and their determinants. Unlike previous studies that use a cohort of new entrants with a short follow-up period, our dataset comprises a representative sample of the population of Spanish manufacturing firms in 1990, followed until 2000. The data were drawn from the annual survey Encuesta sobre Estrategias Empresariales. Our results suggest that fi...

A hybrid decision making system using DEA and fuzzy models for supplier selection in the presence of multiple decision makers

Behavioral Decision-Making and Network Dynamics: A Political Perspective

The blurring of organizational boundaries and the adoption of networks as a prominent form of governance have largely contributed to reinforcing interdependence between internal and external organizational networks as well as between formal and informal ties. This chapter tries to broaden existing theoretical models in order to explain the behavioral decision-making process of the firm and how ...