Decisions, organizations and society : selected readings / ed. by F.G. Castles ...[et al.]
Imprint
[Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1976]
Edition
2nd ed
Descript
438 p. : tables ; 18 cm
CONTENT
Decision concepts -- Defining the policy problem -- Theories of decision making in economics and behavioral science -- What makes up a mind? -- Decision making in bureaucracy -- The administrative process in Britain : Decisions -- The politics of policy in local government -- Values, norms and polities -- Groups and organization and their basis of support -- The politics of the CBI : 1974 and after -- The determinants of pressure group politics -- The prime minister's power -- Political attitudes : The sense of civic competence -- consensus or elite domination : The case of business -- Overload : Problems of governing in the 1970s -- Monopoly capital and government -- The state elite -- The decline in the economic power of the capitalist class -- Elites and the distribution of power in Britain -- A critique of the ruling elite model -- The myth of pluralism -- Two faces of power -- Equality or elites?