Methodological Approaches and Conceptual Models Involved in the Interpretation of Political Decisions (I)
Degtyarev Andrey Alekseevich,
Cand. Sci. (Philos.), Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Moscow, Russia
DOI: 10.17976/jpps/2003.01.14
Degtyarev Andrey Alekseevich Methodological Approaches and Conceptual Models Involved in the Interpretation of Political Decisions (I) . – Polis. Political Studies. 2003. No. 1. https://doi.org/10.17976/jpps/2003.01.14
In its present issue, the journal publishes the first part of A.A.Degtyaryov's article; it deals with such section within the sphere of political studies, as theory of political decision making (PDM). The author discusses in detail available approaches to, as well as concepts of PDM processes, presuming that there exist two main meta-approaches (the descriptive-explicatory and the normative- prescriptive ones) in the research of this range of problems. The material exposed is arranged in chronological order, which, in the author's opinion, most vividly represents the genesis of the thought and the specificity of the views proper to scientists belonging, respectively, to different methodological schools, from those of "behaviouralism" and "limited rationality" to those of "incrementalism" and "comprehensive rationality".