heresthetic

heresthetic

(ˌhɛrəsˈθɛtɪk) n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a political strategy by which a person or group sets or manipulates the context and structure of a decision-making process in order to win or be more likely to win[C20: coined, originally in the form heresthetics, by the US political scientist William Riker (1921–93), from Greek hairein to choose] ˌheresˈthetical adj heresthetician n