DECISION MAKING

Decision Making

Decision Making

Introduction

This paper intends to discuss the rational and administrative models of decision making. Certain examples will be provided in order to make the reader aware about the significance of each of the decision making models. Moreover, the underlying differences between various models of decision making will be discussed. The purpose of this paper is to make the reader aware about the significance of decision making models and their practical implications.

Discussion

Both scholars and practitioners of law have a lot to win from insights into how political and societal forces have influenced the form and content that is given to specific rules. This is because these forces often continue to play a role in the subsequent phase of implementation. The rational model for analyzing collective decision making distinguishes as relevant variables the actors involved, their positions towards the issue at stake, the salience the issue has for these actors and the influence or power of the actors (McGrew, 1982 Pp. 100-125).

However, a theory about the collective decision making concerning legal rules would be incomplete without the inclusion of the variables of the rhetorical model. In this article it is clarified why we also need the rhetorical model to explain such decision making. In addition, the rational and the rhetorical model for analyzing collective decision making are with respect to the object of research, the main assumption, the kind of application and the questions of what is accepted as the proof of truth and how the researcher is positioned towards the object of his research (Daft, 2009 Pp. 550-585).

This comparison shows that the insights produced by the rhetorical model, contrary to what lawyers often are made to believe, are not necessarily less objective than the insights produced by the rational model rhetorical skills are considered to be inherent to the law curriculum, while at the same time legal scholars do not easily identify themselves with this part of their teaching and research. To the extent legal scholars, research mingles with collective decision making, a subject traditionally belonging to the sociologists or political scientists' domain, they rather put their hopes on empirical analytical theories and methods of studying the data (Griffin, 2012 Pp. 200-215).

It is no exaggeration to say that in the ten years since Administrative Behavior first appeared, the volume has become, at least to social .scientists, the most notable book on the science of administration. One may agree or disagree with it, like it or dislike it, find it exceptionally useful or utterly useless and I do not doubt that all these points of view have their adherents but one cannot ignore it. The new edition is a reprint of the old except for an illuminating thirty-page introduction by the author which seeks to clarify the argument of the book and to put it in the perspective of administrative theory and recent developments in the social sciences (Gore, 1964 Pp. 1-16).

The rational model is clearly advantageous in the possibilities it offers for studying many ...