A Theory of Political Decision Modes. Intraparty Decision Making in Switzerland

Steiner, Jurg and Dorff, Robert H.

ISBN 10: 0807814067 / ISBN 13: 9780807814062

Published by University of North Carolina (1980), Chapel Hill, 1980

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24x15cm, xii,239 pp.

Seller Inventory # 000290

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Theory of Political Decision Modes. Intraparty Decision Making in Switzerland
• Publisher: University of North Carolina (1980), Chapel Hill
• Publication Date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0807814067
• ISBN 13: 9780807814062
• Binding: orig.cloth
• Illustrator: folding chart,textual tables
• Condition: VG, dustwrapper
• Seller catalogs:
  • Consociational Theory

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Synopsis

The authors present a new theory of decision-making that provides modes that can be used to describe such widely diverse political entities as the British cabinet, a Quaker meeting, or a village meeting in the Sudan. By studying the Free Democratic party in Switzerland, the authors produced four decision modes: decision by majority vote, decision by amicable agreement, non-decision, and the mode they develop and describe in the book — decision by interpretation.

Originally published 1980.

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