Public Administration

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Public Administration

Q1: Decision Making

2. Using Allison’s model, what lens (es) do you believe Chief Jackson used to make these decisions?

Chief Jackson used the Governmental Politics Model. Through its name, it embraces politics which is none other than a game where anything is conceivable that can happen in a matter of moments. Governmental Politics model perspective the activities of government as an outcome of politics. Allison plots that the rise of these forces is from the foreign policy process aspect of aggressive game, “where multiple players with different policy preferences struggle, compete, and bargain over the substance and conduct of policy (Rosati and Zelikow 2000).” Unlike organizational behavior model and rational actor model, this model contemplates decision as the yield of the game played by leaders in the government .

Power affects result. This is true in the Brown shooting case where Chief Jackson withholds the name of the shooting officer. It tries to get the reply of who battled with whom, who schemed with whom, and who won against whom. The model outlines some essential suppositions (Ripley and Patrick 2008). Whatever takes place eventually are the results of the resultants. Or maybe pushing, pulling, and hauling continues going as the key political segments, and the individuals who have more power will win and have their say in the elementary process of decision making. This is based on the black racism case where the whites always win over the blacks.

Based on the Chief Jackson’s decision, it is clear that a country’s activities are best comprehended as the aftereffect of politicking and transaction by its top leaders. Regardless of the possibility that they share an objective, leaders contrast in how to accomplish it on account of such components as background and personal interests. In the event that a leader is sufficiently sure, they won’t look for contribution from their...