DEMOKRASI, KEBIJAKAN UMUM, DAN KEPUTUSAN POLITIK

AbstractPolitical life concerns all those varieties of activity that influence significantly the kind of authoritative policy adapted for society and the way it is put into practice. We are said to the participating in political life when our activity relates in some way to the making and execution of policy for a society.Political decision making is one of the most important research domains in political psychology and rational choice theory is the most commonly use theoretical frame work to explain decision making processes.Basic assumptions (normative) rational choice theory are that individuals and choose action that are optimally related to their beliefs and values. Moreover, political decision making in particular voting is only weakly related to actual self interest.Democracy a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representative, control of an organization or group by the majority of its members. If politic is perceived as consisting of those collectivized decisions. Naturally, while all the decisions of political nature are collectivized decisions are political.While a social demoracy and the reason that makes it entirely different from a socialist democracry from a policy enforced by a socialist state upon a society. Social democracy descend from the top down. While socialist democracy is above all away of governing.