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- Title
- Representative decision making : constituency constraints on collective action
- Related
- Aquilar, Francesco and Galluccio, Mauro. Psychological and political strategies for peace negotiation : a cognitive approach, p.157-173
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4419-7430-3_10
- Publisher
- New York : Springer
- Date
- 2011
- Author/Creator
- Druckman, Daniel
- Author/Creator
- Çuhadar, Esra
- Author/Creator
- Beriker, Nimet
- Author/Creator
- Celik, Betul
- Description
- This chapter focuses on the role of group and national identity in various types of collective actions. It features the decision to take action and asks about factors that influence that decision. Thus, our perspective is from the standpoint of the decision-maker who usually represents a collectivity (group, organization, nation). The interest is less about those decision-makers’ own identities and attachments than about various drivers and constraints on their decisions to act. People responsible for developing organizational and national policies often think in terms of futuristic scenarios. They ask about options in the form of “what … if,” and turn alternative stories around in their mind. They play out some implications of alternative futures – with regard to such problems as the stability of regimes, the mobility of elites, negotiating tactics, and peacekeeping operations. This study takes advantage of this familiar kind of thinking about policy and action. We ask: What if a situation was like this? What would you do? We then continue the questioning in an attempt to tease out the reasons for the decision, in this case various collective actions. We add an analytical dimension to scenario decisionmaking. By administering the scenarios to a large population of respondents, we can systematically vary several aspects of both situations and actions. By using a simple rating task, we can produce scales – like temperature scales – that distinguish more (“hotter”) from less (“cooler”) important elements in decision-making. This is a new approach to the study of decision-making in an international context.
- Description
- 17 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 160600 Political Science
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Department of Media, Music, Comm. and Cultural Studies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/294156
- Identifier
- mq:31719
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781441974303
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2013003238
- Identifier
- mq_res-20140707-163517
- Language
- eng
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