Decisionmaking

Decision Making Theory

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In the eighteenth century William Ricker, James Robinson and Herbert Simon popularized this approach. It was Richard C. Synder in 1954, prepared a model and studied decision-making in the field of international relations. Decision Making is a phenomenon of choosing a particular course of action among various available alternatives. Decision making approach lays emphasis on the need of probing the minds of the decision-makers.

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The decision makers were not to be taken into isolation. While probing their behavior both internal and external settings were to be taken into account along with the decision makings process. The internal settings included domestic politics, public opinion, geographical location etc. The external settings included conditions and factors beyond the territorial boundaries of the state, state, the decision of other states and nature of  their society.

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There are at least five elements which influence the making of foreign relations. The public opinion, opin ion, interest interest groups, the media of mass communication, specific agents in the executive executive branch and specific committees of a legislature. Decision making includes competence, communication, and motivation-competence. motivation-competence.

Communication Approach Communication means “the procedure by which one mind may another. another. In the wider sense it not only oral speech but all human behavior. The main features features of communication approach are: 1.The 1.The communication analysis seeks to show the political aspects of international communication and the degree to which these flows of communication determines political behavior. 2.Mass populations are the channels of communication. Propaganda Propaganda as an instrument constitutes a new form of  psychological psychological control through which the government of the country tries to influence the public of the other country. country. •

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3.The influence of the communication and its probable results cannot be studied in isolation but under the diverse influences which produce complex results. 4.This approach tries to explain world politics by isolating particular variables and establishes a different different set of  cause effect relationships. 5.This approach treats the government as a decision making system based on various information flows. •

This approach does not look loo k at power as the key factor factor in the political phenomena and emp