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Aside from their educational value, models are supposed to be beneficial to the decision-making process. There are, as we well know, many reasons why this cannot be so. Both technical and political decision-makers often are guided by factors other than those embodied in the model. These might include, for instance, past decisions made by these people or agreements made to trade votes in exchange for each other’s favourite projects. Under these circumstances there is relatively little contribution that a model can make to influence the “proper” decision.
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Dickey, J. (1983). Early Warning Systems for Urban Policy-Making and Planning. In: Batty, M., Hutchinson, B. (eds) Systems Analysis in Urban Policy-Making and Planning. NATO Conference Series, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3560-3_14
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