Political Decision-Making in North Carolina Cities

Abstract

This is both a report of research in progress and a commentary on the various approaches to the study of decision-making. The essential question asked by the current project is, "How (or by what processes) are decisions made?" Data is being obtained primarily through the use of observers, and the results are expected to support one or another of several hypotheses on the nature of community elites. The article originally appeared in RESEARCH PREVIEWS, VII (January, 1960), pp. 15-20, a publication of the University of North Carolina's Institute for Research in Social Science.