Decision-Making and Implementation Essay

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Paradox: The Art of Political Decision-Making and Social Equity and Public Administration: Origins, Developments, and Applications

It is safe to say that both books have what could be termed "a liberal inclination" in that both Stone and Frederickson see their theories as people-centered, with all their attendant frailties and mistakes. Ironically, Stone makes much the same critique that some conservatives would, in that trust in "rational" decision-making leads to bad decisions, because economics doesn't explain policy. As a result, economics shouldn't dictate policy, because the reality is often very different -- and statistics, as it is often said, consists of lies, damn lies, and statistics.

This reminds me of an article I read in the New York Times, recently about the people who rise to the top in a meritocracy are somewhat righteously arrogant, having achieved a great deal. As Ross Douthat said in the New York Times, "meritocrats …become infatuated with statistical models that hold out the promise of a perfectly rational and frictionless world" (2011). I think it could safely be said of rational policy analysts that they share some attributes with meritocrats.

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In the trenches, as it were, administrators know that is never that simple: there will always be winners and losers, and you can never have perfectly equal shares of pie.

Herbert Simon said: "A 'good' public library, from the administrative standpoint, is not one that owns all the books that have ever been published, but one that has used the limited funds which are allowed it to build up as good a collection as possible under the circumstances" (1997). That sort of realpolitik seems like something that Stone would approve of, except that she'd like to substitute the "polis" model, which seems to be a more community-based, more particularly feminine-based set of politics, at least from someone conversant with Noddings' and Gilligan's ethics of care (Noddings, 2002). By the way, she explicitly followed up on the ethics of care model in an article in The Nation in 2000, "Why We Need A Care Movement."

Frederickson is also concerned with ethics, though not….....

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