Exam 10: Decision Making: Rationality and Risk

The NIMBY phenomenon is most often associated with which approach?

Which step is not normally considered a basic step of the rational decision-making approach?

Which approach processes decisions as inputs and outputs?

The author argues that if "decision making is the central administrative act" then "______ is the lifeblood of decision making."

What are the three weaknesses shared across the major decision-making approaches?

How are information and values important to the decision-making approaches?

Each major decision-making approach fails to account for ______.

In the participative approach, each of the following groups may claim participation in decision making EXCEPT ______.

Why are values such a sticky subject?

In addition to information, what other problem must each decision-making approach tackle?

One problem with the major decision-making approaches is that they tend to focus on a single value.

What does each of the major decision-making approaches fail to deal with?

What strategy might a public choice approach have advocated for in the cases of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis and the scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs?

Most fundamentally, privatization is a method for how the government does things, not what it ought to do.

What approach emphasizes limiting analysis to a few alternatives as opposed to evaluating them all?

The public-choice approach focuses on intimate involvement from what group(s)?

What four groups might take part in participative decision making?

What is incrementalism?

None of the decision-making approaches discussed in the chapter provide the solution to bureaucratic pathologies that block the flow of important information.

What phrase describes inferior management decision making based on information asymmetries?