Cheatography
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Methods of decision-making
This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
Different kinds of Decisions
Positive |
intended to alter the status quo in some way |
Negative |
will do nothing new about a public problem but will retain the status quo |
ideal scenarios policy effort/policy solution
proportionate: Large |
A severe problems generates a large response |
proportionate:Small |
small problem encounters a similarly small expenditure of government resources |
Disproportionate: Over-shooting |
over-shoots the severity and do not adequately match the nature of the underlying propblem |
Disproportionate: under-shooting |
under-shoots the severity, less developed research |
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Theories of decision making
Early rational and incremental models |
Comprehensive and Bounded-Rationality Models k |
Incremental model |
Mixed-scanning models |
Garbage Can models |
"Decision Accretion" model |
The Rational model
Public policy-making was inherently a search for maximizing solutions to complex problems in which policy-relevant information was gathered and then used in a scientific mode of assessing policy options |
More preferable for showing how decisions ought to be taken to assure maximum results |
"Rational" in the sense that it prescribes decision-making procedures that, in theory, will consistently lead to chosing the most efficient means of achieving policy goals |
Achieved through the ordered gathering of relevant information |
Not always possible to achieve "full" rationality in practice |
Simon, 1955: Bounded rationality |
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