System Analysis Of David Easton's Decision Making System

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1. Decision Making Process
Decision making process is the model which explains that the process of policy can be produced. Karl W. Deutsch said politics is the making decision by public means. The decision that has been decided is not the private decision for some people, but it is the collective decision by the public sector, government. The decision means the general action or public goods, about what will do and who gets what. Deutsch illustrated a country as a ship, meanwhile government act like helmsman.
David Easton gave an illustration about the decision making process using a draw.

Figure 1.1 Theory of Political System Source: Easton, David (1965). A System Analysis of Political Life, New York, S.32.
In this picture, David Easton tried to give an understanding how the decision is made. The process start from the input which input is coming from environment, and through demands and support, the input get into the political system. In the political system, the input is preparing to …show more content…

The term of system itself identified by involving several actor of the states such as society, government and several institutions that functionate to change the demands into some decisions. In the case of Indonesia and Kyoto Protocol, regarding to the illustration of Easton, it could be applied by elaborating the input, political system as a process, and output.
Here, we could see that the condition of the world which face a big and global problem at that time that might lead to a huge destraction in the future which created many demands from the International societies to start thinking about the problem by conducting several conventions and ends with Kyoto Protocol could be assumed as an input that came from the environment. By the demands and the supports to the Kyoto Protocol which at that time arose, Indonesia ends with ratified this Kyoto

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