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Decision making in the policy process
The document discusses different frameworks for understanding decision-making in the policy process. It describes rational decision-making, the garbage can model, bounded rationality, incrementalism, and the multiple streams framework. It notes that rational decision-making assumes all factors are known, while real-world policy decisions often have ambiguous problems, options, and criteria. The garbage can model sees problems and solutions floating independently. Bounded rationality recognizes limits in knowledge. Incrementalism bases decisions on past formulations. The multiple streams framework sees problems, policies, and politics interacting. The document concludes with a definition and advantage of collaborative governance.
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- 1. Decision-making and the policyprocess Dr Alberto Asquer
- 2. Rational decision-making Decision-making in thepolicy process
- 3. Rational decision-making Decision-making in thepolicy process • Nature of the problem is known • Set of options is known • Effects of choices are known • Choice criteria are well specified
- 4. Rational decision-making Garbage can Decision-making inthe policy process
- 5. Rational decision-making Garbage can Decision-making inthe policy process
- 6. Rational decision-making Garbage can Decision-making inthe policy process • Various problems ‘float around’ • Various solutions ‘float around’ • Participants ‘float around’ • Decisions come out of choice opportunities
- 7. Rational decision-making Garbage can Bounded rationality Decision-making inthe policy process • Set of options is not fully known • Effects of choices are not fully known • Choice criteria are ambiguous Herbert Simon
- 8. Rational decision-making Garbage can Incrementalism Bounded rationality Decision-making inthe policy process • Decisions are largely based on the past • Previous problem formulation, options and choice criteria inform future choices Charles Lindblom
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- 10. Multiple streams framework Problemstream Policy stream Politics stream Policy window Policy entrepreneur Policy output
- 11. • Collaborative governance ‘amethod of collective decision-making where public agencies and non-state stakeholders engage each other in a consensus-oriented deliberative process for inventing and implementing public policies and procedures for managing public resources’ • Collaborative advantage When governance helps resolve policy and coordination problems that could not be achieved by an organization or a government department acting alone Decisions in governance settings Doberstein, C. (2016). Designing collaborative governance decision-making in search of a ‘collaborative advantage’. Public Management Review, 18(6), 819-841.
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