German Greens Bet the Future on More Weapons Spending

According to the famous “garbage can” model of political decision-making, there isn’t much rationality in politics. in the 1970s, this model resists the idea that collective choices are the outcome of political professionals intentionally looking for optimal solutions for well-defined problems. Rather, it casts these choices as the result of contests between different elite factions who try to convince citizens — and each other — that their preferred “solution” can at least beat their…