POLISCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Decision-Making, Cuban Missile Crisis
20 Apr 2016
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Political decisions, even the most critical, are not always subject to rational choice. Asking us to believe that even political decisions, even those of higher levels, are not radically different than the choices we make in our own lives. Possibility that the things that constrain your own lives are the same that constrain theirs. Kurds- one possible decision for the us is to do nothing: nothing is the best possible alternative for a government. However, something might happen, need a plan. Governments are unified (example, us government as a whole) the government is primary, the thing that makes decisions. Many political scientists assume that is what people do. Another way to look at the world. Many of a view something as the right thing and assume that the government will just do it. What happens if something happens in a part of the world that we do have a plan for, and little collected information on.
