Handbook of decision making

Identifies common patterns and the variations that different contexts may generate. This work covers the mainstream methods of decision making such as cost-benefit analysis, linear programming and queuing. It also explains alternative and emerging methods such as geographic information systems, Q-me...

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Other Authors: Morçöl, Göktuğ
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton CRC Press / Taylor & Francis c2007
Series:Public administration and policy policy 123
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Table of Contents:
  • Decision making : an overview of theories, contexts, and methods / Göktuğ Morçöl
  • Contribution of public choice analysis to decision making theories in public administration : past, present, and future / Tanya Heikkila
  • Policy making through disjointed incrementalism / Michael Hayes
  • Bounded rationality and organizational influence : Herbert Simon and the behavioral revolution / Matthew S. Mingus
  • Practical reasoning and action : Simon's Administrative Behavior in context / Paul Nieuwenburg
  • Discourse, decision, and the doublet : an essay on the crisis of modern authority / Thomas J. Catlaw
  • Evolution, cognition, and decision making / Steven A. Peterson
  • Punctuated equilibrium models in organizational decision making / Scott E. Robinson
  • Democratic theory as a frame for decision making : the challenges by discourse theory and governance theory / Eva Sørensen
  • Governing policy networks / Erik-Hans Klijn and Joop F.M. Koppenjan
  • Complex systems thinking and its implications for policy analysis / Kurt A. Richardson
  • New sensibilities of nonlinear decision making : timing, praxis, and a feel for relationship / Linda F. Dennard
  • Decision making in interdisciplinary studies / William H. Newell
  • Foundation of Confucian decision making / David Jones
  • Decision : Nishitani on time and karma / Jason M. Wirth
  • Theology and decision-making : Judaism / Alfred A. Marcus
  • Decision making in public management networks / Robert Agranoff and Mete Yildiz
  • Political decision making within metropolitan areas / Jack W. Meek
  • Rules of drug trafficking : decision making in Colombian narcotics enterprises / Michael Kenney
  • Information, technology, and decision making / John W. Dickey and Ian A. Birdsall
  • Decision making models used in e-government projects : evidence from Turkey / Mete Yildiz
  • Budgeting as an institutional practice : modeling decision making in the budget process / Enamul Choudhury
  • Strategic planning and decision making / Ofer Meilich and Alfred A. Marcus
  • Experiments and quasi-experiments for decision making : why, how, and how good? / Melvin M. Mark and Jennifer Mills
  • Cost benefit analysis / Tevfik F. Nas
  • Linear programming and integer programming : choosing the optimal mix of alternatives ; Queuing theory and simulations / Dipak K. Gupta
  • Decision making in geographic information systems / Akhalaque Haque
  • Q methodology and decision making / Dan W. Durning and Steven R. Brown
  • Methods of assessing and enhancing creativity for public policy decision making / Göktuğ Morçöl
  • Participatory decision making : using conflict management theories, methods, and skills to overcome the rational and irrational sources of conflict / Susan Summers Raines
  • Narrative policy analysis for decision making / Emery Roe.