By Tina Flegel
The writer lines a number of strength coverage judgements taken among 2006 and 2013 in Azerbaijan to determine how foreign actors attempted to persuade policy-making. The e-book enables figuring out of the political mechanisms, threats and possibilities that symbolize actions in Azerbaijan’s strength quarter illustrating strategic pitfalls and possibilities. according to an in depth state research and the extensive comparability of 4 coverage circumstances, the booklet deduces the political elite’s purpose, and its useful results for transnational family. it truly is correct for students learning the political economic system of rentier states and regimes within the authoritarian realm, in addition to for younger strategists in enterprises that behavior enterprise in nations ruled by way of tight casual networks.
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310). Policies are an expression of different assumptions and of perceptions. In policy-making those assumptions relate to a considerable part to other actors whose reactions are, as has been pointed out before, not known beforehand. If, in order to achieve a certain goal, incentives and conditions are changed in accordance with underlying beliefs of the policy-makers regarding the object of regulation and the comportment of the targeted subjects, a self-fulfilling prophecy may unfold irrespective of the correctness of these beliefs.
Organizational interests can be differentiated into preservative and functional (Bohne 1981, p. 118). The former means that organizations want to survive (Friedberg 1977, p. 20) and the latter pertains to the external purpose of an organization. g. g. g. well). External interests do not have to be altruistic. Organizations and individuals will try to change or conserve their environment according to their normative, ideological or material aspirations. Politicians, managers and other individuals with institutional power are like organizations assumed to want to ‘survive’, meaning that they will want to keep or enhance their position within an organization (Bueno de Mesquita, Morrow 1999; Bueno de Mesquita, Smith 2010).
Most actors operate in environments where, if push comes to shove, they are not the most powerful player or where they, at any rate, cannot be sure, that they are. (Bonanno et al. 2000) This is a very important factor for an actor that contemplates breaking the formal or informal rules. Rule-breaking might not only entail punishment according to the rules, but it might inspire everyone to break the rules and punish with full force. 1 Rationality in complex systems 45 At the same time, actors may lose credibility for acting in accordance with formal rules if these rules are perceived as illegitimate by society.