A rational model is considered rational as it prescribes procedures for decision-making that will lead to the choice of the most efficient means of achieving objectives. Rationalist theories are based on the belief that the society's problem ought to be solved in a rational manner. Rational decision making is a process which starts with an identification of the problem and ends with its solution.
[...] Public decisions are often made in an ad-hoc and haphazard a fashion and cannot be called incremental or rational. How policy consideration changes as we move away further away in time from the events that lead to specific policies: On September four commercial passenger flights were hijacked, and the commandeered airplanes were piloted into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and the Pentagon in Northern Virginia. The events of that day resulted in the loss of more than 3,000 lives and billions of dollars in damage to buildings and other physical infrastructure. [...]
[...] Rational decision making A rational model is considered rational as it prescribes procedures for decision-making that will lead to the choice of the most efficient means of achieving objectives. Rationalist theories are based on the belief that the society's problem ought to be solved in a rational manner. Rational decision making is a process which starts with an identification of the problem and ends with its solution. The first step is to define the problem so that the group members may find different possible solutions for them. [...]
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