Ways to improve political decision-making

Abstract

Any intervention to improve political decision-making would have to anticipate and address each of these potential barriers. How to anticipate and address these likely obstacles can constitute the basis for yet another fantasy for the young-at-heart. But such barriers are addressed on a day-to-day basis by cognitive-behavior therapists and their clients, with some success. Misperception-induced failures to empathize and perspective-take and group-think processes as well as “gaming the system” procedures may also undermine decision-making efficiency. H. C. Kelman describes a way to use integrative problem-solving as a means to nurture negotiation, mediational, and communicative decision-making skills. There is a difference between having policy-makers be able to articulate these decision-making steps and their actually using them on a regular basis while under pressure. B. Gellman describes how politicians would intentionally and strategically avoid, bypass, and misrepresent the views of other advisors whose opinions may differ.

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