Gortner, Mahler, and Nicholson distinguish managerial discretion in the public sector from that in the private sector mainly on the basis of what?

Which of the following characteristics is more likely found to be in the profile of a person who is ideologically conservative rather than liberal?

a. supports affirmative action in college admissions b. supports limitations on abortion c. supports regulations on greenhouse gases d. supports prohibition of the death penalty

The heart of decision making and attempts to understand and explain it rests on

a. the government politics model. b. expected utility theory. c. groupthink. d. the process of evaluating and choosing among alternatives.