Understanding Policy Decisions

• Main Author: Dente, Bruno (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology,
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Political theory.; Statistics.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Political Theory.
• Physical Description: VIII, 134 p. 11 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319025209
• ISSN: 2191-530X

This book proposes a model for understanding how innovative policy decisions are taken in complex political and organizational systems as well as the possible strategies that the promoter of the innovation can employ in order to maximize the probability of successful adoption and implementation. It presents a conceptual framework for the analysis of decisional situations in order to design the most appropriate strategies for overcoming conflict (e.g. of the NIMBY variety) and/or increasing the engagement of potentially interested actors. The book includes a template for decisional case studies, a protocol for the definition of a decisional strategy, and an exercise in decisional analysis.