Decision Making

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In this paper, the writer shows that Michael Lipsky identifies the primary area in which government bureaucrats have discretionary decision-making power. The writer looks at the processes upon which bureaucratic decision-making is heavily reliant.

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"In his analysis, Michael Lipsky identifies the primary area in which government bureaucrats have discretionary decision-making power. Bureaucrats exercise discretion in decisions about citizens with whom they interact. Over time the sum total of the exercise of this discretion and the decisions made by these bureaucrats becomes the agency's culture or behavior. Both Lipsky's and Brehm Gates' analysis demonstrates that bureaucratic decision-making processes are heavily reliant on two important factors. First bureaucratic decision making is dependent on the way supervisors filter agency policy down to subordinates. Second ... "

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