ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we discuss in more detail the strategies that parties in a network use to realize their goals. As will have become clear in the preceding chapters, making decisions in a network is a process in which an initiating actor will have to acquire the support of other actors. The course of the decision making strongly depends upon the behaviour of these actors and is hardly ever a well-structured and orderly process, because these actors serve, in the first place, their own individual interests and not the collective interest of making a decision. This is why multi-issue decision making is so useful: it gives actors an interest in making a collective decision.
