Abstract
This paper has two objectives; to come up with a set of attributes that can be used to measure presidential aspirants in a democratic governance system, and to co-opt the attributes so assembled into a mathematical model that can be used to compute the best candidate among a myriad of competing alternatives. The model will have as inputs multiple and disparate criteria which will need to be transformed into dimensionless utilities for meaningful comparisons. The paper espouses why Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), with its variants of MAUT, MAVT and AHP is an appropriate tool to use to accomplish such a task. Constructed piecewise linear functions were used instead of linear Likert scales for better accuracy.
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This paper has two objectives; to come up with a set of attributes that can be used to measure presidential aspirants in a democratic governance system, and to co-opt the attributes so assembled into a mathematical model that can be used to compute the best candidate among a myriad of competing alternatives
The model will have as inputs multiple and disparate criteria which will need to be transformed into dimensionless utilities for meaningful comparisons
Summary
American presidential leadership is fundamentally a relational process (Neustadt, 1960) where decisions have considerable consequences for entire societies The import of this short statement is that the selection of a leader is about the most significant political event on a nation’s calendar. A nation should experience economic growth with the passage of time no matter how little, but there are countries, many in the developing world, who’s GNPs, have gone down with a concomitant reduction in the standard of living of the citizenry decades after independence. This is mostly due to the absence of good leadership.
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