Received: 5 November 2009. Accepted: 9 December 2009.

ABSTRACT

This paper presents some characteristics and dilemmas of collective decision making. Collective decision making could be presented as the process of successive crystallization of dominant alternatives under the influence of different decision contexts from primary given decision potentials. This process is presented as the many-phased process of the acting of contextually dependent “energizing factors” of the collective decision making on the “attractiveness matrix” of outcomes of collective decisions. The attractiveness matrix determines the attractiveness for each alternative of decision, and the most attractive alternative in the given situation presents the rational decision in the given situation. In the final phase of decision making holds a context which gets a simplified attractiveness matrix. It corresponds to the common decision for one of the alternatives.

KEY WORDS

collective decision making, rationality, decision potential, joint outcomes, energizing

CLASSIFICATION

APA:	3020 Group & Interpersonal Processes
JEL:	D79, D83