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The chapter introduces the concept, typical of public policy analysis, that the content of the decision plays an important role in defining the relationship between the actors. The feasibility of a non incremental policy change depends also from the fact that it provides benefits to all the participants or only to some of them and that the cost and the benefits of the decision are concentrated on few actors or are distributed among a large group.
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Dente, B. (2014). What is Decided? The Content of the Decision. In: Understanding Policy Decisions. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02520-9_3
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