Technical rationality in a political context: limitations of decision support quantitative techniques
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https://doi.org/10.51359/2177-1243.2021.249612Keywords:
Public Policies, Decision Making, Rationality, UncertaintyAbstract
Quantitative techniques provide results that are more objective and clo-ser to social reality when compared to other techniques, nevertheless, they imply the construction of theoretical models, which are in principle reductionist, making their results permeable to the subjectivity of those who apply them. The problem of subjectivity can be controlled by confronting different models and their respective assumptions. As this is a paper designed to present the state of the art, the metho-dology followed refers to a bibliographical survey of the problem and its results point to the confirmation of the importance of the use of quantitative techniques for bringing greater objectivity and rationality to a political context that is by nature ambiguous and subject to multiple pressures.
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