The premises of decision-making within the Australian Public Service
By: MATHESON, Craig
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford : Blacwell Publishers Limited, March 1997Australian Journal of Public Administration 56, 1, p. 13-24Abstract: Decision-making is usually studied in the context of a particular shoice or institution. This article proproses an alternative, cross-cutting approach. It argues that federal policy-making involves three forms of rationality - techinical, economic and political. Standard operating procedures develop around each. This simplifies much decision-making but may also produce narrowness of outlook and a failure to see other dimensions to a policy problem
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Decision-making is usually studied in the context of a particular shoice or institution. This article proproses an alternative, cross-cutting approach. It argues that federal policy-making involves three forms of rationality - techinical, economic and political. Standard operating procedures develop around each. This simplifies much decision-making but may also produce narrowness of outlook and a failure to see other dimensions to a policy problem
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