Handbook of decision making /
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| Imprint: | Boca Raton : CRC/Taylor & Francis, c2007. |
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| Description: | 638 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Public administration and public policy ; 123 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6201834 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Contributors
- Part I. Overview and Introduction
- Chapter 1. Decision Making: An Overview of Theories, Contexts, and Methods
- Part II. Theories of Decision Making
- 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
- 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
- Chapter 13. Decision Making in Interdisciplinary Studies
- Chapter 14. Foundation of Confucian Decision Making
- Chapter 15. Decision: Nishitani on Time and Karma
- Chapter 16. Theology and Decision Making: Judaism
- Part III. Contexts of Decision Making
- 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
- Chapter 22. Budgeting as an Institutional Practice: Modeling Decision Making in the Budget Process
- Chapter 23. Strategic Planning and Decision Making
- Part IV. Methods of 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 Programming: 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
- 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
