Collective choice processes : a qualitative and quantitative analysis of foreign policy decision-making Irmtraud N. Gallhofer and Willem E. Saris.

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A qualitative study of collective decision-making processes -- Theoretical frameworks for group decision-making in the context of national government -- Theoretical framework used in this book -- Methodology -- Gernany´s decision to initiate world war II -- The world at the brink of a nuclear war: the U.S. decision to avoid a nuclear war, october 1962 -- The Austro-Hungarian cabinet decision to initiate eorld war I -- The dutch cabinet decision to take military action in Indonesia, Autumn 1948: consensual decision-making in a heterogeneous group -- The dutch cabinet decision to carry out military action in Indonesia, december 1948: a cabinet on the brink of tendering its resignation -- The practice of collective choice -- A quantitative study of collective decision-making by a heterogeneous group -- The study of desicion-making processes -- The decision-making process (results) -- Preference aggregation rules (results) -- The practice of collective choice in a heterogeneous group.