Constraints, Compromises, and Decision Making

Gary Goertz
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Gary Goertz: Department of Political Science, University of Arizona

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2004, vol. 48, issue 1, 14-37

Abstract: Noncompensatory decision making forms a core part of poliheuristic theory. At the same time, decision making under constraints is a common view among expected utility theorists. It is argued that poliheuristic theory permits one to endogenize constraints. Views about the rules ofwar are used to contrast the exogenous versus endogenous perspectives, and the noncompensatory perspective is formalized in terms of a class of utility functions. Finally, these poliheuristic, noncompensatory utility functions are contrasted with those typically used in the literature on spatial modeling.

Keywords: Noncompensatory decision making; poliheuristic theory; behavioral decision theory; utility functions; spatial modeling; international norms; rules of war (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1177/0022002703260273

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