Powers of the President during crises

by J. Malcolm Smith; Cornelius P. Cotter

Communication

Herbert A. Simon’s definition of communication “as any process whereby decisional premises are transmitted from one member of an organization to another,”[660] generally describes the kinds of legislative provisions which will be reviewed in this section, with the exception that we are here concerned with the transmission of decisional premises from one agency to another. The transmission may be permissive or mandatory. The information or advice conveyed may or may not be related to the framing of a particular decision; it may or may not be binding upon the recipient agency.