2. INTRODUCTION
â–Ş DEFINITION
â–Ş ACTORS IN DECISION-MAKING
â–Ş DECISION-MAKING MODELS
â–Ş THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS
â–Ş CHALLENGES IN DECISION-MAKING
â–Ş STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE DECISION-MAKING
â–Ş CONCLUSION
3. Definition
• It involves selecting from among a range
of possible policy options, including
simply maintaining the status quo.
• In many cases decision are “negative” and
involve allowing existing arrangements to
stand either unaltered or in only slightly
modified form (Howlett 2007).
• Positive decisions may involve major
overhauls of existing arrangements,
institutions, rules, and laws or may affect
these only at the margins or
“incrementally” (Lindblom 1959.
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4. FRActors in Decision-Making
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â–Ş Elite members
â–Ş Public managers
â–Ş Professional analysts
â–Ş Issue-specific experts
â–Ş Consultant
â–Ş Lobbyists.
6. FRThe Decision-making process
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1. Analysis for decision-making
1. Aim of identifying a
maximizing choice
2. Standardized
decision aid techniques
3. Provide various
options
(alternative)
4. Reports &
recommendation from
policy managers at the
highest level
5. Decision points
must accurate
and appropriately
summarized
7. FR
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1. Groupthink : a process in which groups pressures for conformity
undermine systematic consideration of alternatives and disconfirming
evidence;
2. a bias toward
criteria for which
quantitative measures
are available.
3. a bias toward
positive impacts
4. a bias toward the study
of impacts along a
particular dimension that
is closely associated with
the identity of the
organizations conducting
the assessment.
Potential bias that can affect decision-making
8. FR
2. Policy Selection
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â–Ş Choose and officially sanctioning one or more of the
alternatives developed in policy formulation.
â–Ş Involve one or multiple decision-makers.
â–Ş These actors operate in very different venues, with
different resources and purposes and very different
attitudes towards criteria.
â–Ş There is also issue of the timing of decision.
9. FR
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Challenges in
decision-making
Short time
horizons
Lack of reliable
information
Lack of expertise in
policy analysis
10. FR
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Strategies for effective decision-making
Integrating
political, technical,
and organizational
considerations
Basing decisions
on systematic
analysis
Assessing
economic, social,
and environmental
impacts of policy
options
Strengthen
analytical
capacity
Improving intra-
agency and
interagency linkage
in decision-making
11. conclusion
• Better decision help improve implementation and
outcomes.
• Policy decisions cap the “front-end” process of policy-
making.
• Rise to the challenges if public policies are not to falter
at the “back-end” stage of policy implementation.