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Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder examines how democratic representatives make decisions in crisis situations. By analyzing parliamentary asylum debates from Germany's Asylum Compromise in 1992-1993 and the 2015-2016 refugee crisis, Julius Rogenhofer identifies representatives' ability to project decisiveness as a crucial determinant for whether the rights and demands of irregular migrants were adequately considered in democratic decision-making. Both crisis situations showcase an emotive dimension to the parliamentary meaning-making process. As politicians confront fears of social and political disorder, they focus on appearing decisive in the eyes of the public and fellow representatives, even at the expense of human rights considerations and inclusive deliberation processes.

Rogenhofer shows how his theoretical approach allows us to reinterpret a range of crisis situations beyond the irregular migration context, including democracies' initial responses to Covid-19, the European Sovereign Debt Crisis, and United States climate politics. These additional case studies help position concerns with decisiveness amid the challenges that populism and technocracy increasingly pose to representative democracies.

The work investigates the factors of unstable internal and external environments, and reviews the theoretical and methodological approaches to the application of chaos theory in political science, particularly in the field of public policy and international relations. The article also outlines the range of factors exerting an entropic influence on policy-making processes, and defines the most efficient models of political decision-making in the context of dynamic development of nonlinear social systems. Keywords: political decisions, chaos theory, nonlinear systems, shock events, bifurcation points, butterfly effect, entropy factors. ; Досліджено чинники нестабільного внутрішнього та зовнішнього середовища. Розглянуто теоретико-методологічні підходи до застосування теорії хаосу в політичній науці, зокрема у сфері публічної політики й міжнародних відносин. Визначено спектр факторів, які мають ентропійний вплив на політикотворчі процеси, й оптимальну модель ухвалення політико-управлінських рішень у контексті динамічного розвитку нелінійних соціальних систем. Ключові слова: політичні рішення, теорія хаосу, нелінійні системи, шокові події, точки біфуркації, «ефект метелика», ентропійні фактори.

"Attitudes Toward Women and the Influence of Gender on Political Decision Making" published on by Oxford University Press.

In this article the authors analyse the extent to which an explicitly gendered issue such as the position of wo/men in political decision-making has been approached from a gender mainstreaming perspective. They do so by exploring how the issue has been framed in three countries, the Netherlands, Spain, and Greece, and in the European Union. The analysis enables them both to provide a state of the art of how gender in political decision-making has been dealt with throughout the last decade in the selected case-studies and to offer insights on the potential for a gender mainstreaming approach of topics in which sex-related inequality is explicit. The main argument is that such policy issues contain a benchmarking fallacy. The easiness with which they can be quantified opens the door for an analysis and solution of problems of gender inequality in terms of numbers, without tackling underlying structural problems ; In this article the authors analyse the extent to which an explicitly gendered issue such as the position of wo/men in political decision-making has been approached from a gender mainstreaming perspective. They do so by exploring how the issue has been framed in three countries, the Netherlands, Spain, and Greece, and in the European Union. The analysis enables them both to provide a state of the art of how gender in political decision-making has been dealt with throughout the last decade in the selected case-studies and to offer insights on the potential for a gender mainstreaming approach of topics in which sex-related inequality is explicit. The main argument is that such policy issues contain a benchmarking fallacy. The easiness with which they can be quantified opens the door for an analysis and solution of problems of gender inequality in terms of numbers, without tackling underlying structural problems.

""This book examines the main techniques of intelligence analysis to prevent terrorism and political attacks conducted by state/non-state actors. It also explores the use of new technologies as investigative tools and training"--Provided by publisher"--

In this article, it is shown that citizen process preferences are complex and include several dimensions. The argument relies on data from a representative sample of Spanish citizens (N=2,450) to assess these dimensions. Using confirmatory factor analysis as well as Mokken analysis, it is shown that citizen process preferences capture support for three different models: participatory, representative and expert-based. The relationships between these dimensions (where the opposition between representation and participation stands as the clearest result) and the substantive and methodological implications of these findings are discussed. Adapted from the source document.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Mediatization of Foreign Policy Decision-Making -- 1.1 Our Theoretical Argument in Brief -- 1.2 Disposition of the Book -- References -- Literature -- Chapter 2: The Scope Conditions of Mediatized Foreign Policy -- 2.1 A Process that Permeates All Parts of Society, All the Time…? -- 2.2 The Need for a Delimited Understanding of Mediatization -- 2.3 Scope Conditions of Mediatized Foreign Policy Roles -- 2.4 CNN Literature as Empirical Support for Uncertainty as an Important Scope Condition -- 2.5 Towards an Analytical Framework -- References -- Literature -- Chapter 3: Design and Methodological Concerns -- 3.1 Scope Conditions on a General Level-Empirical Evidence from the UNGA -- 3.2 Two Empirical Cases-Libya and Côte d'Ivoire -- 3.3 Studying Three Actors-Finland, Sweden and the UK -- 3.4 How to Proceed with the Empirical Studies -- 3.5 Appendix: Interview Guide -- References -- Literature -- Chapter 4: Mediatization in the United Nations General Assembly -- 4.1 Mediatization of Process and Form -- 4.2 Measuring Indications of a Mediatized Foreign Policy in UNGA Speeches -- 4.3 Empirical Findings from the UN General Assembly -- 4.3.1 Changes in Foreign Policy Content -- 4.3.2 The Scope Conditions of Mediatization of the Content of Politics -- 4.3.3 Changes in Form -- 4.4 The Relationship between Form and Content -- 4.5 Three Hypothesis Regarding the Scope Conditions of Mediatization -- 4.6 Conclusions -- 4.7 Appendix. Code Sheet: The Mediatization of European Foreign Policy -- References -- Literature -- Chapter 5: Political Logic at Play in Côte d'Ivoire -- 5.1 The Development Leading to Civil War in Côte d'Ivoire -- 5.1.1 The Presidential Elections in 2010 and the UNSC in 2011 -- 5.2 Media Reports on the Crisis in Côte d'Ivoire.

Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder examines how democratic representatives make decisions in crisis situations. By analyzing parliamentary asylum debates from Germany's Asylum Compromise in 1992-1993 and the 2015-2016 refugee crisis, Julius Rogenhofer identifies representatives' ability to project decisiveness as a crucial determinant for whether the rights and demands of irregular migrants were adequately considered in democratic decision-making. Both crisis situations showcase an emotive dimension to the parliamentary meaning-making process. As politicians confront fears of social and political disorder, they focus on appearing decisive in the eyes of the public and fellow representatives, even at the expense of human rights considerations and inclusive deliberation processes. Rogenhofer shows how his theoretical approach allows us to reinterpret a range of crisis situations beyond the irregular migration context, including democracies' initial responses to Covid-19, the European Sovereign Debt Crisis, and United States climate politics. These additional case studies help position concerns with decisiveness amid the challenges that populism and technocracy increasingly pose to representative democracies

The Potential Pareto criterion, or Kaldor-Hicks standard, presumes that costs are not fully compensated. Yet, uncompensated costs can incentivize costly political activity and create uncertainty about political outcomes. These consequences are not reckoned in the standard benefit-cost analysis. This study models political costs and uncertainty as a function of project parameters and political-institutional characteristics. The economic consequences of political behavior are then incorporated into an adjusted project evaluation standard. This standard assures that the project's conventionally measured net benefits are sufficient to cover political costs and uncertainty about the decision-making outcome.

Party identification provides citizens with an anchor from which they derive many of their political attitudes and issue preferences. But what happens when people encounter political debates that place their partisan identities and policy attitudes into conflict with one another? This article draws on an original experiment designed to study the effect of debates that cut across people's partisan identities and policy attitudes. The results show that cross-cutting debates make people less likely to engage in selective exposure, more likely to feel ambivalent toward their political party, and less likely to rely on party cues when rendering a judgment.

"This book examines Israel's relationship and political decision-making process towards the Occupied Territories from the aftermath of the Six Day War to the Labour Party's electoral defeat in 1977. The period represents the first decade of Israel's occupation of the Occupied Territories and the last decade in which the Labour Party was Israel's most dominant political force. Arguing that the successive Israeli governments headed by the Labour Party lacked a strategic policy towards the Occupied Territories to address the country's objectives and needs, this book demonstrates the detrimental effect this had on Israel, on the Middle East in general, and on the Palestinian people in particular. In addressing key aspects of decision making pathologies, this book raises issues which remain important features of Israeli politics today and an analysis relevant for political decision making worldwide"--

Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder examines how democratic representatives make decisions in crisis situations. By analyzing parliamentary asylum debates from Germany's Asylum Compromise in 1992-1993 and the 2015-2016 refugee crisis, Julius Rogenhofer identifies representatives' ability to project decisiveness as a crucial determinant for whether the rights and demands of irregular migrants were adequately considered in democratic decision-making. Both crisis situations showcase an emotive dimension to the parliamentary meaning-making process. As politicians confront fears of social and political disorder, they focus on appearing decisive in the eyes of the public and fellow representatives, even at the expense of human rights considerations and inclusive deliberation processes. Rogenhofer shows how his theoretical approach allows us to reinterpret a range of crisis situations beyond the irregular migration context, including democracies' initial responses to Covid-19, the European Sovereign Debt Crisis, and United States climate politics. These additional case studies help position concerns with decisiveness amid the challenges that populism and technocracy increasingly pose to representative democracies