Necessity, Choice and Behaviour

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Vol. 39, Issue No. 21, 22 May, 2004

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Commentary

M S Prabhakara

Vol. 39, Issue No. 21, 22 May, 2004

Necessity, Choice and Behaviour

Vol. 39, Issue No. 21, 22 May, 2004

Commentary

M S Prabhakara

The vulgarisation of rational political choice that is dictated by necessity and informed by a value judgment of the performance of a political party in office, to behaviourist mystique, ignores that politics is necessarily a complex, messy and unpredictable process. While the political choices are rational, the political process is not always so.

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