Author: Nick Manning
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: underpinnings, obstacles, institutional, government, decisionmaking, cabinet, strategic
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 1999-12
ISBN-10: 082134627X
ISBN-13: 9780821346273

"Collective cabinet decisionmaking provides the institutional mechanism by which many governments prioritize their policies and guard against unpredictable policy reversals."- Mansood Ahmed, Vice President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, The World BankThe style and membership of cabinets vary in every country. The heads of democratic governments form a cabinet for three principal reasons:1. The threat that the legislature will significantly amend the government's program as expressed in the budget proposals made by the executive.2. The threat of dismissal between elections.

Author: Barry Leonard
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: intelligence, estimate, national, capabilities, nuclear, intentions, iran
Number of Pages: 9
Published: 2009-12
ISBN-10: 1437916910
ISBN-13: 9781437916911

Assesses the status of Iranżs nuclear program, and the programżs outlook over the next 10 years, as of 10/31/07, and focuses on these questions: What are Iranżs intentions toward developing nuclear weapons? What domestic factors affect Iranżs decisionmaking on whether to develop nuclear weapons? What external factors affect Iranżs decisionmaking on whether to develop nuclear weapons? What is the range of potential Iranian actions concerning the development of nuclear weapons, and the decisive factors that would lead Iran to choose one course of action over another? What is Iranżs current

Authors: Thomas Held, Bruce Newsome, Matthew W. Lewis
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: acquisition, decisions, improve, framework, military, equipment, commonality
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833045504
ISBN-13: 9780833045508

Increasingly, the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense as a whole are developing families of systems built around common components. To inform the Army’s decisionmaking process surrounding commonality, RAND Arroyo Center was asked to assess the advantages and disadvantages of commonality and how to best manage their trade-offs. To do so, this report uses historical analysis, literature analyses, and case studies of commercial and military efforts to exploit commonality. It presents analyses of the effects of commonality on costs, capabilities, and training and offers a decisionmaking

Author: Unknown
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: decisionmaking, needs, assessed, analysts, commodity, price, index, impact, consumer
Number of Pages: 164
Published:
ISBN-10: 1428973567
ISBN-13: 9781428973565

Author: Andrew Scobell, Larry M. Wortzel
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: stress, decisionmaking, security, national, chinese
Number of Pages: 258
Published:
ISBN-10: 1428916288
ISBN-13: 9781428916289

Author: L. Nye Stevens
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: guide, facilitate, congressional, decisionmaking, assessment, results, annual, performance, plans, agencies
Number of Pages: 58
Published: 1998-08
ISBN-10: 0788183494
ISBN-13: 9780788183492

Facilitates congressional use of Fed. agencies' annual performance plans. The Results Act requires the plan to (1) identify annual performance goals and measures for each agency's program activities, (2) discuss the strategies and resources needed to achieve annual performance goals, and (3) provide an explanation of the procedures the agency will use to verify and validate its performance data. This guide is organized around 3 questions that correspond to these requirements. For each question, it identifies issues that need to be addressed and presents key assessment questions that can help u

Author: Robert A. Berenson
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: outcomes, costs, decisionmaking, clinical, icus, care, units, intensive
Number of Pages: 98
Published: 1984
ISBN-10: 142892373X
ISBN-13: 9781428923737