Review on David Arellano (2022) The traps of decision or when governments and organizations walk (almost) willingly to the precipice

Abstract

This review refers to the work “The traps of decision or when governments and organizations march (almost) gladly to the precipice” authored by David Arellano Gault and published in co-edition by Fontamara and the University of Xalapa. It is a disruptive work that is oriented towards controversy in the classic way with which we usually think of the State and offers a set of indispensable theoretical tools to study the major errors committed by public administrations and opt for better courses of action.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11659600

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