The challenge of complex decision- making: concluding chapter and discussion

This book aims at capturing some of the most pregnant aspects of complex political decision-making. The complexity of political decision-making shows itself in many contexts and affects several constituting features of these contexts. This edited volume expands on the implications of complexity on issues of legitimacy, leadership and communication in a variety of political contexts and from different theoretical and methodological perspectives. In this concluding chapter, we summarize the main fi ndings of the volume’s contributions by linking their theoretical approaches, methods and empirical objects of study.