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Theory and Practice in Policy Analysis,: government is a big complicated system. Sure there is a person at the top that seems to be making decisions, but that person's decisions are the result of the information they get from subordinates and the options that are presented, both of which are filtered and affected by the whole organization. Sometimes the "decisions" of big organizations don't seem to make any sense, and there is a whole literature dedicated to understand how these organizations actually make decisions.
Answer the Questions below:
How is an "organization" different from an individual?
Are organizations rational, and if so in what ways are they rational?
Why did Allison develop these three Models of decision making - why not just one?
What is the Cyert and March idea of how a firm works and how is it different from a "rational" model?
The chapter supplies a large variety of theories and models of how organizations "make decisions" or "operate" - which of these do you find to be most correct or incorrect? Are they all correct in different ways?
What does all of this have to do with policy design?