Project Area C

Modes of Decision-Making

Within the Project Area C, the focus was placed on diverse practices of decision-making with respect to their communicative and social logics. The seven sub-projects took different modes of decision-making (we differentiate between negotiation, decision qua authority, externalization and formalized procedures) as well in the view as the ways in which these could be intertwined. It also seeked to clarify to what extent and why modes and social logics of decision-making changed in the long run, particularly which role processes of formalization played therefore, and why certain forms of decision-making have proved remarkably stable.