scholarly journals Through Liquid Democracy to Sustainable Non-Bureaucratic Government

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alois Paulin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Liquid Democracy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Self Service ◽  
Blank Slate ◽  
Collaborative Decision ◽  
Insight Into

We summarize the concept of Self-Service Government (ss-Gov) as presented earlier and explore how the principles of Liquid Democracy (LD) can be applied in ss-Gov for collaborative decision making. We provide a thorough insight into the history of LD and summarize its recent developments. By combining ss-Gov and LD, we develop the concept of Sustainable, Non-Bureaucratic Government (SNBG) as a novel, blank-slate approach to government of eligibilities within- and towards governmental systems. We argue that such entanglement of LD with ss-Gov results in a closed-circuit system that can provide end-to-end self-management of jural relations. Thus, we argue, SNBG is a vision concept capable to enable morphable self-managed government which requires virtually no mediatory human agents for government. We discuss the feasibility of such approach based on a Gedankenexperiment featuring a modern parliamentary decision-making process.

scholarly journals Through Liquid Democracy to Sustainable Non-Bureaucratic Government

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alois Paulin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Liquid Democracy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Self Service ◽  
Blank Slate ◽  
Collaborative Decision ◽  
Insight Into

We summarize the concept of Self-Service Government (ss-Gov) as presented earlier and explore how the principles of Liquid Democracy (LD) can be applied in ss-Gov for collaborative decision making. We provide a thorough insight into the history of LD and summarize its recent developments. By combining ss-Gov and LD, we develop the concept of Sustainable, Non-Bureaucratic Government (SNBG) as a novel, blank-slate approach to government of eligibilities within- and towards governmental systems. We argue that such entanglement of LD with ss-Gov results in a closed-circuit system that can provide end-to-end self-management of jural relations. Thus, we argue, SNBG is a vision concept capable to enable morphable self-managed government which requires virtually no mediatory human agents for government. We discuss the feasibility of such approach based on a Gedankenexperiment featuring a modern parliamentary decision-making process.

scholarly journals Cooperative Decision Support Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 109-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascale Zaraté
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Search Space ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Collaborative Decision Making ◽  
Distributed Reasoning ◽  
Cooperative Decision Making ◽  
Optimal Decision Making ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Collaborative Decision

The subject of our research aims to support in the most suitable way the collaborative decision-making process. Several scientific approaches deal with collaborative decision-making: decision analysis (Carlsson & Turban, 2002; Doyle & Thomason, 1999; Keeney & Raiffa, 1976) developing different analytical tools for optimal decision-making; in management sciences the observation of decision-making styles activity (Nuut, 2005; Fong, Wyer, & Robert 2003); decision-making as a group work (Esser, 1998; Matta & Corby, 1997); studies concerning different types of decisions focalised on number of actors: individual (Keeney & Raiffa, 1976), group (Shim, Warkentin, Courtney, Power, Sharda, & Carlsson, 2002), cooperative (Zaraté, 2005), and collaborative (Karacapilidis & Papadias, 2001). For the collaborative decision-making field, the situation is clear. In most of research studies, the concept of collaborative decision-making is used as a synonym for cooperative decision-making. Hence, the collaborative decision-making process is considered to be distributed and asynchronous (Chim, Anumba, & Carillo, 2004; Cil, Alpturk, & Yazgan, 2005). However, we can stand out several works, having different research approaches, considering collaborative decision-making process as multi-actor decision-making process, where actors have different goals. Considering (Panzarasa, Jennings, & Norman, 2002) the collaborative decision-making process is seen as “a group of logically decentralised agents that cooperate to achieve objectives that are typically beyond the capacities of an individual agent. In short, the collaborative decision-making has generally been viewed and modelled as a kind of distributed reasoning and search, whereby a collection of agents collaboratively go throughout the search space of the problem in order to find a solution.” The main interrogation of this article is to study the best way to support collaborative decision-making process.

scholarly journals Think Tanks In The Formation Of The Central Asian Vector Of British Foreign Policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (06) ◽  
pp. 127-131
Author(s):  
Shakhnoza Akramjanovna Azimbayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
British Foreign Policy ◽  
History Of

This article examines the role and place of British think tanks in the design and development of the country’s foreign policy towards the Central Asian region. This issue is studied in combination with an analysis of the history of the formation of British think tanks, the positions of these centers in relation to Central Asia in the early 90s of the twentieth century after the collapse of the USSR and the state of modern think tanks that study Central Asia and their influence on the decision-making process in Great Britain.

Clinical Problem Solving: Decreased Level of Consciousness and Unexplained Hydrocephalus

2022 ◽  
pp. 194187442110567
Author(s):  
Naomi Niznick ◽  
Ronda Lun ◽  
Daniel A. Lelli ◽  
Tadeu A. Fantaneanu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Problem ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Clinical Problem Solving ◽  
Level Of Consciousness ◽  
History Of

We present a clinical reasoning case of 42-year-old male with a history of type 1 diabetes who presented to hospital with decreased level of consciousness. We review the approach to coma including initial approach to differential diagnosis and investigations. After refining the diagnostic options based on initial investigations, we review the clinical decision-making process with a focus on narrowing the differential diagnosis, further investigations, and treatment.

The implications of the decision in Helen Suzman Foundation v Judicial Service Commission 2018 (7) BCLR 763 (CC) 8 on the functioning of the South African Judicial Service Commission

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nomthandazo Ntlama
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
South African ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Service Commission ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Future Management

ABSTRACT The article examines the implications of the judgment of the Constitutional Court in Helen Suzman Foundation v Judicial Service Commission 2018 (7) BCLR 763 (CC) 8 on the functioning of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). The judgment has brought to the fore a new lease of life relating to the JSC's post-interview deliberations as a disclosable record in terms of Rule 53(1)(b) of the Uniform Rules of Court. The disclosure seeks to provide an insight into the decision-making process of the JSC in the appointment of judicial officers in South Africa. It is argued that the judgment is two-pronged: first, the disclosure of the post-interview record enhances the culture of justification for decisions taken, which advances the foundational values of the new democratic dispensation; secondly, it creates uncertainty about the future management and protection of the JSC processes in the undertaking of robust debates on the post-interview deliberations. It then questions whether the JSC members will be privileged in their engagement with the suitability of the candidates to be recommended for appointment by the President. The question is raised against the uncertainty about which decision of the JSC will be challenged that will need the disclosure of the record because the judgment does not entail the national disclosure of the record in respect of each candidate but applies only when there is an application for review of the JSC decision. Key words: Judicial Service Commission, appointments, discretion, judiciary, independence, rule of law, discretion, accountability, transparency, human rights.

DECISION MAKING IN PEDIATRIC SPINAL DEFORMITY

Neurosurgery ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (suppl_3) ◽  
pp. A54-A68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin S. Smith ◽  
Christopher I. Shaffrey ◽  
Mark F. Abel ◽  
Christopher P. Ames
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Spinal Deformity ◽  
Pediatric Patients ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Nonoperative Treatment ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Diagnosis And Classification

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To review the concepts involved in the decision-making process for management of pediatric patients with spinal deformity. METHODS The literature was reviewed in reference to pediatric deformity evaluation and management. RESULTS Pediatric spinal deformity includes a broad range of disorders with differing causes, natural histories, and treatments. Appropriate categorization of pediatric deformities is an important first step in the clinical decision-making process. An understanding of both nonoperative and operative treatment modalities and their indications is requisite to providing treatment for pediatric patients with spinal deformity. The primary nonoperative treatment modalities include bracing and casting, and the primary operative treatments include nonfusion instrumentation and fusion with or without instrumentation. In this article, we provide a review of pediatric spinal deformity classification and an overview of general treatment principles. CONCLUSION The decision-making process in pediatric deformity begins with appropriate diagnosis and classification of the deformity. Treatment decisions, both nonoperative and operative, are often predicated on the basis of the age of the patient and the natural history of the disorder.

To Remove or Not to Remove? Dealing with pollution risks from ship wrecks

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 457-477
Author(s):  
Mark Whittington ◽  
Ann Zhang ◽  
David Campion
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Pollutant Removal ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Maritime Industry ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
International Convention ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Equitable Treatment

Abstract (ID: 2017-155) ABSTRACT The navigational and environmental risks posed by ship wrecks have presented a challenge to governments and the maritime industry for decades. In more recent years a consensus has developed worldwide based on assessing these risks and undertaking measures proportional to the severity of those risks. This approach has been formalised in the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks 2007. With recent developments in salvage technology and equipment, the options for pollutant removal from wrecks, and the removal of entire wrecks, are becoming viable for scenarios which were previously deemed infeasible. Together with a general heightened environmental concern worldwide about impacts to the marine environment, decision-making on wreck removal and associated pollutants is under the spotlight. Based on ITOPF’s extensive experience providing advice on pollution mitigation and environmental risks posed by wrecks, this paper examines recent issues in the treatment of wrecks. The authors highlight some key concerns regarding the equitable treatment of wrecks and argue that a more rigorous, technically-based decision making process be adopted and promoted to ensure clarity and consistency for all parties.

Patient preference for prostate-specific antigen testing: A population-based analysis.

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (7_suppl) ◽  
pp. 188-188
Author(s):  
S. L. Chang ◽  
J. C. Presti ◽  
J. P. Richie
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Patient Preferences ◽  
Prostate Cancer Screening ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Psa Testing ◽  
History Of

188 Background: The AUA and American Cancer Society both recommend a shared decision-making process between clinicians and patients for prostate cancer screening with PSA testing. Data are limited data regarding patient preferences for PSA evaluation in the United States. We assessed the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of men who proceeded with or opted out of PSA testing in a nationally representative population-based cohort. Methods: We analyzed male participants from the 2001 to 2008 cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) who were 40 years old or older without a history of prostate cancer, recent prostate manipulation, or hormone therapy use (n = 6,032). All men underwent or refused PSA testing after a standardized explanation about prostate cancer screening by a physician. A multivariate logistic regression was conducted after adjusting for survey weights to identify independent sociodemographic and clinical predictors for opting out of PSA testing. Results: Overall, 5% of the study cohort refused PSA testing. The analysis revealed predictors for refusing PSA testing (Table). PSA testing preference was not influenced by a family history of prostate cancer, previous prostate cancer screening, education level, socioeconomic status, insurance status, or tobacco history. There were no significant time trends for PSA testing. Conclusions: Despite equal access to PSA testing in our study, there was unequal utilization. We found that Black men were more likely to refuse PSA testing. Our analysis also suggests that a perception of suboptimal health or uncertain future outlook may discourage men from undergoing PSA evaluation. These patient preferences for PSA evaluation should be factored into the shared decision-making process for prostate cancer screening. [Table: see text] No significant financial relationships to disclose.

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