Purposive Interaction In Multi-Actor Decision Making: Operationalizing Coleman's Linear System of Action for Policy Decision Support

Coleman's Linear System of Action (1990) models policy decision making as a negotiating process in which agreements are reached on the exchange of control over issues. This book describes how to operationalize the Linear System of Action for real-world policy arena's, it introduces mathematical tools for analyzing decision processes and shows how the Linear System of Action can be used to discuss dependency relations. Observed relations between the model and real-world experiences of actors and changes in the way they perceive their position, demonstrate the strength of the methods developed.