Tim van Gelder provides a taxonomy for decisions:
- Intuitive Decisions
- Technical Decisions
- Deliberative Decisions
- Bureaucratic Decisions
Deliberative and bureaucratic decisions are, I think, the most important for collaborative decision-making. Intuitive decisions, made quickly by an individual, are least important for collaboration. Technical decisions have the most interesting description: they are “made by following some well-defined technical procedure”; arguably they are not decisions.
Can you spot any overlaps or gaps? Discuss at his article.
The argumentation community has given a lot of attention to deliberation; I wonder if that has been influenced by the prevalence of deliberation in decision-making, and the difficulty of formal modelling of bureaucracies.