Jan 22, 2019 · The creators of the garbage can model believed people made decisions this way because rational, formal decision making often wasn't practical. School principals, for instance, have to reach decisions while navigating among multiple stakeholders: students, teachers, parents, local school boards and other officials and possibly the local community.
Jul 18, 2016 · Their metaphor of decision making as a “garbage can”, informed Kingdon’s work and has been used in many studies both as a metaphor for agenda setting, as Kingdon (Citation 1984) originally intended it, and as a larger framework to interpret policy making as a whole (Mucciaroni Citation 1992).Garbage Can policy making. Garbage Can As a Model of Policy Making. John W. Kingdon, 1984, Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies. p. 90 (re the garbage can) "Running through . . . organizations or decision structures are four separate streams: problems, solutions, participants, and choice opportunities. Each of the streams has a life of. 421 134 266 487 117 59 289 24