MATHESON, Craig <br/><br/>
The premises of decision-making within the Australian Public Service 

 - Oxford :  Blacwell Publishers Limited,  March 1997 
<br/><br/> 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