ISBN:
9781574445480
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (664 p)
Series Statement:
Public Administration and Public Policy
Parallel Title:
Print version Handbook of Decision Making
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Over time, thought processes and decision making styles evolved and were shaped by theological, philosophical, political, social, and environmental factors and trends. Recently, advances in technology have borne an unprecedented influence on our social environment. Contemporary thinking inevitably reflects this influence and moves us from a linear, cause -effect rationale to broader perspectives that encompass new methodologies and an understanding of networked and complex social relations.Handbook of Decision Making is the first text of its kind to include the mainstream methods and theories
Description / Table of Contents:
Front cover; Preface; Editor; Contributors; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Decision Making: An Overview of Theories, Contexts, and Methods; Chapter 2. The Contribution of Public Choice Analysis to Decision Making Theories in Public Administration: Past, Present, and Future; Chapter 3. Policy Making through Disjointed Incrementalism; Chapter 4. Bounded Rationality and Organizational Influence: Herbert Simon and the Behavioral Revolution; Chapter 5. Practical Reasoning and Action: Simon's Administrative Behavior in Context
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6. Discourse, Decision, and the Doublet: An Essay on the Crisis of Modern Authority*Chapter 7. Evolution, Cognition, and Decision Making; Chapter 8. Punctuated Equilibrium Models in Organizational Decision Making; Chapter 9. Democratic Theory as a Frame for Decision Making: The Challenges by Discourse Theory and Governance Theory; Chapter 10. Governing Policy Networks; Chapter 11. Complex Systems Thinking and Its Implications for Policy Analysis; Chapter 12. The New Sensibilities of Nonlinear Decision Making: Timing, Praxis, and a Feel for Relationship
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 13. Decision Making in Interdisciplinary StudiesChapter 14. Foundation of Confucian Decision Making*; Chapter 15. Decision: Nishitani on Time and Karma*; Chapter 16. Theology and Rabbinic Decision Making: Judaism*; Chapter 17. Decision Making in Public Management Networks; Chapter 18. Political Decision Making within Metropolitan Areas; Chapter 19. The Rules of Drug Trafficking: Decision Making in Colombian Narcotics Enterprises; Chapter 20. Information, Technology, and Decision Making*; Chapter 21. Decision Making Models Used in E-Government Projects: Evidence from Turkey
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 22. Budgeting as an Institutional Practice: Modeling Decision Making in the Budget ProcessChapter 23. Strategic Planning and Decision Making; Chapter 24. Experiments and Quasi- Experiments for Decision Making: Why, How, and How Good?; Chapter 25. Cost Benefit Analysis; Chapter 26. Linear Programming and Integer Progamming: Choosing the Optimal Mix of Alternatives; Chapter 27. Queuing Theory and Simulations; Chapter 28. Decision Making in Geographic Information Systems; Chapter 29. Q Methodology and Decision Making
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 30. Methods of Assessing and Enhancing Creativity for Public Policy Decision Making*Chapter 31. Participatory Decision Making: Using Conflict Management Theories, Methods, and Skills to Overcome the Rational and Irrational Sources of Conflict; Chapter 32. Narrative Policy Analysis for Decision Making; Index; Back cover
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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