Professional paper
Classical Theories of Political Decision Making and Making Decisions in Times of War
Željko Poljak
Abstract
The author of the paper examines the fundamental concepts of classical theories of political decision-making and comparisons with decision-making during wartime. Two theories at the forefront are examined: bounded rationality and incrementalism. In accordance with that, a theoretical construct is first conveyed and used to describe the aforementioned theories, as well as their fundamental concepts. Then, the author moves onto foreign and defense policy, as well as decision-making during wartime, focusing on Carl von Clausewitz’s key postulates of war. This is followed by a discussion about the similarities between the classical concepts of decision-making and the basic postulates of war. To conclude, the author expresses the standpoint that the concepts of bounded rationality are more in keeping with the postulates of war than is the case with incrementalism.
Keywords
Incrementalism; bounded rationality; political decision-making; war; foreign policy; defense policy
Hrčak ID:
175040
URI
Publication date:
21.12.2016.
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