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Which type of policymaking requires making hard choices among policy alternatives?

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MH SET 2025 Paper 2 Sociology Question Paper (15-Jun-2025)
The correct answer is

Rational policy-making

Rational policy-making, associated with Herbert Simon and Yehezkel Dror, requires the decision maker to identify all goals, rank societal values, list every feasible alternative and compute costs and benefits for each in order to pick the option that maximises net social gain.

The systems model treats policy as an output of environmental inputs, the institutional approach studies policy through governmental structures, and critical approaches interrogate power relations; none of them foregrounds the trade-off calculus among alternatives the way the rational model does.

Hence, the correct answer is Rational policy-making.

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