ABSTRACT
There are two frequently mentioned objections to the network approach. The first is that when decisions are made in a network the process and the decision-making game are more important than the content. There is no investment in power games; the investment instead is in careful analyses. The second objection follows on from this. When content is very much underplayed, the decision-making game appears to be determined solely by power. The actions of the parties in a network are dictated by power considerations. They think and act on the basis of their own interest and not on the basis of the general interest. Decision-making thus acquires the characteristics of a mafia. The opposite of this is an approach in which a problem is looked at from a content point of view and in which justice is done to facts and causalities.
