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Mesa-Lago, Carmelo: The economy of socialist Cuba. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1981. + MacEwan, Arthur: Revolution and economic development in Cuba. - New York/N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1981

Introduction -- Decision Making Method Based on Distance Measure and Similarity Measure -- Dynamic Decision Making Method Based on The Intuitionistic Fuzzy Bayesian Network -- Novel Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision Making Models in The Framework of Decision Field Theory -- Decision Making Method Under Probabilistic and Cognitive Environment -- Appendix. .

CCMR News Article ; CCMR hosted a version of its biannual "Executive Program in Defense Decision Making" offering for 21 international military and civilian participants, from November 6-17, 2017. Often described as CCMR's "flagship" course, this curriculum has been offered at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California for over 20 years.

This dissertation explored the possible effects that the 2008 financial recession might have had on superintendents' leadership and decision-making. A great deal of scholarship has addressed the effects of the 2008 financial recession as well as educational leadership, however, few studies have investigated the direct impact of the 2008 financial recession on superintendent's leadership. The study answers the following research questions: 1. According to superintendents whose tenure included years 2007 to the present day, what considerations did they bring into their decision making regarding reductions within their school district? a. What considerations were made regarding reductions in the area of school curriculum, school personnel, & extracurricular programs? 2. How did the superintendents assess the results of their decisions from the time frame of 2007 to the present day? 3. According to the interpretive framework of utilitarianism, deontology, care, and critique in what lenses did the superintendents' ground their decision making? 4. What are the implications to the field of educational leadership? This multi-case study focused on two Illinois K-12 unit school districts that are similar in size who rely on a mix of general state aid and property taxes. The participants were two superintendents whose tenure included the years 2007 to the present day. Interviews, observations, and document review were used to collect data. The study concluded that it is essential for superintendents to have a true understanding of their boards' values and beliefs. It showed the value in establishing a solid working relationship with the board. This study shed light on the importance of having a plan in place for the district grounded in the values and beliefs of the school community. Additionally, this study identified the need for political leadership training and emphasized the importance of reflection as a means to promote growth as an educational leader.

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Community development often involves organizing participatory decision-making processes. The challenge is for this to be meaningful. Participatory decision-making has the potential to increase the transparency, accountability, equity and efficiency with which public administration serves the least privileged in society. However, in practice, it often fails to bring about these outcomes. A number of academics and practitioners have, therefore, theorized how participatory decision-making processes can better empower marginalized groups. By critically reviewing this body of work and empirically grounding the debate in recent practice, we aimed to develop a theoretically rigorous, easily applicable and holistic model of an inclusive participatory decision-making process that can work across a range of contexts. The empirical strand included surveying public engagement practitioners and participants about the participatory events they had organized or attended. These empirical findings were combined with insights from the theoretical literature to devise a new conceptual model of emancipatory, inclusive and empowering participatory decision-making – the 'Tree of Participation'. The model can be useful to both organizers of participatory processes, as a check for empowering and inclusive practice, and to disadvantaged groups, as a set of expectations and demands when engaging in public decision-making.

Does case salience condition the role of ideological preferences in the decisions of U.S. Supreme Court justices? Does the attitudinal model of judicial behavior hold equally true in high salience and low salience cases? In this article, we analyze the role of case salience as a moderating influence on the explanatory capacity of the attitudinal model and test the strength of the model in high salience versus low salience contexts. Using civil rights votes during forty‐seven Supreme Court terms, from 1953 through 2000, we find that the attitudinal model is sensitive to case salience and that justices rely significantly more on ideological preferences when deciding high salience cases than low salience ones. Our findings represent an important qualification to the attitudinal model.

"Values and Public Opinion" published on by Oxford University Press.

Although the topic of decision making capacity and older persons has been discussed in the literature, there still is much to be learned about it theoretically and practically. Experts continue to disagree about which standards are important for assessing decision making capacity. Questions such as: "When should a capacity assessment be done on an older person and by whom?" are covered by the editors. Topics included in this volume are the application of an original framework for ethical decision making in long term care; an elder's capacity to decide to remain living alone in the co

The notion of decision making is central to studying the way in which policies are both formulated and implemented. This note discusses the relative merits of rationalistic as opposed to incrementalist models of decision making (together with attempts to provide a 'third' alternative). It concludes that in certain respects the debate is artificial since the approaches have features in common, the significance of which outweigh any specific points of variance. Firstly, on both sides of the debate the relationship between 'is' and 'ought' is confused and there are good grounds for suggesting that whereas incrementalist models may perform an explanatory function, rationalist models are largely confined to a prescriptive role. Secondly, the debate does not consider seriously the issue of what it takes to act in accord with any set of decision making rules and thus neglects the way in which policy makers and administrators may use 'decision making' as a gloss for a wide range of practices. Throughout, the paper is concerned with the implications of the terms of the dispute about different notions of 'decision' and 'decision making', for policy research.

Article 12(3) CRPD requires states parties to provide access by persons with disabilities to the support they may require in exercising their legal capacity. This is to ensure that the rights, will and preferences of persons with disabilities are enjoyed on an equal basis with others [Articles 12(1)(2) and (4) CRPD]. Moreover, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has made it clear that supported decision-making must replace substitute decision-making arrangements as these are discriminatory and deny equal enjoyment of the right to exercise of legal capacity for persons. At the same time, there is ongoing debate as to whether or not the absence of substitute decision-making regimes is essential for the non-discriminatory realization of an individual's rights, will and preferences to be achieved. To resolve this debate, however, specific attention needs to be paid to the CRPD message on what it actually means to give effect to the equal and non-discriminatory enjoyment of rights for all. In the context of persons with mental disabilities this requires looking beyond human rights simply in terms of limiting unwarranted interventions to the proactive removal of obstacles to full rights enjoyment and the creation of environments that respect and support such enjoyment. With this in mind this paper will therefore critically consider the use of supported decision-making within existing substitute decision-making regimes with particular reference to Scotland's mental health and capacity laws. It will consider the challenges this poses and whether it is indeed possible to adapt existing regimes to achieve CRPD compliance. In doing so, it is suggested that a full appreciation of the overarching CRPD message about equality and non-discrimination in the enjoyment of rights is required to bring about such compliance.