Questions tagged [decision-making]
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What are general benefits and disadvantages for political leaders to be honest with their people?
This is quite a broad question since obviously there are many different political systems and ways of governing around the world. But I would like to boil it down to some standard concepts of ...
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Understanding the decision process in politics - How much knowledge does a politician need? [closed]
Edit: Thank you for your helpful comments. Based on them, I decided to modify my Question.
I am wondering how decisions are made in politics. In particular, what are the skills the politicians ...
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Why were the US mail-in ballots implemented the way they were, with such a late mailing deadline?
Mail-in ballots are a good idea, especially in COVID times, but the current implementation in the US seems so obviously wrong.
Specifically, allowing ballots to be mailed on the final day guarantees ...
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Is there systematic evidence that (campaign) "pivoting" doesn't work as well as it used to?
It's not hard to find punditry like
[Trump's] chief campaign strategist Paul Manafort told Republican leaders that Trump’s been acting all along. “The part that he’s been playing,” Manafort insisted, ...
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Can influence diagrams be an effective tool to mediate political disagreements?
From Wikipedia:
An influence diagram (also called a relevance diagram, decision
diagram or a decision network) is a compact graphical and mathematical
representation of a decision situation. It ...
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Electing officials by least disliked or the candidate that creates the least "resistance" among the voters
I have learnt about a simple yet interesting decision making model: instead of choosing the most voted outcome, choose the one that is the least disliked.
For example, the team has to decide a place ...
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Machiavelli on making hard decisions
Is there anywhere where, in his writings, Machivelli talks about making difficult decisions and how to regard "the greater good"?
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Decision-making in small American cities
In several American cartoon series (namely "The Simpsons" and "South park"), there is a pattern, which appears in many episodes:
Some major external event happens (e. g. an important part of the road ...
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