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.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Understanding Policy Decisions
• Models for Understanding Policy Decisions
• Who Decide? Actors and Their Resources
• What Is Decide? The Content of the Decision
• How to Decide? The Patterns of Interaction
• When and Where to Decide? the Decisional Context
• Taking Complex Decisions. What Are the Strategies?
• Studying Decisions.