Indecision Theory:
Indecision: The usual algorithm is to make a selection either one way or another or between several choices. However, no action is also a decision. Indecision, thereby, is a decision. An example is in the selection process of voting in a democratic process. There is the abstension. That is a form of indecision that Indecision Theory covers. For a detailed description,
see: http://ideas.repec.org/p/clt/sswopa/1106.html
Systems Thinking:
For a detailed definition, please visit
or http://www.bsn-gn.eku.edu/BEGLEY/GSThand1.htm Ludwig von Bertalanffy General Systems Theory is a "scientific effort to identify structural, BEHAVIORAL and developmental features common to particular classes of living organisms. One "approach is to look over the empirical universe and pick out certain general phenomena which are found in many different disciplines, and to seek to build up general theoretical s relevant to these phenomena," e.g., The other "approach is to arrange the empirical fields in a hierarchy of complexity of organization of their basic 'individual' or unit of behavior, and to try to develop a level of abstraction appropriate to each" (Boulding)." http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/GENERA_THEOR.html
GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY
For extreme detail
in indecision theory,
see articles such as:
"Ideal Point Estimation with a Small Number of Votes: A Random Effects Approach."
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