However, one district manager said this was problematic because such members have a tendency to monopolize meetings and can fail to include other ordinary members in decision making.
In many areas, officials are making efforts to involve ordinary citizens in local decision making.
If only they could stop playing out what Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, once called "the ordinary creative tension of decision making" once the decisions are made.
And referring to Lochner v. New York, the 1905 Supreme Court decision that summoned a constitutionally protected "right of contract" to block government regulation, he added: "At worst, it reawakens Lochner's pre-New Deal threat of substituting judicial for democratic decision making where ordinary economic regulation is at issue".
It didn't take long before the quality of Thurston – as both a player and as a character – to shine through and show what a monumental wrong turn the Bulldogs, a club renowned for ordinary decision-making at the time, had arrived at.
But there does seem to be a general consensus among deontologists that moral impartiality does not require that an agent be strictly neutral between her own good and the good of other people in ordinary decision-making contexts.
Ordinary members can also be intimidated by more educated members and keep a lower profile in decision making.
As Sheehan and Steinsbekk and Solberg have argued, we regard many ordinary decisions people make as properly informed without having all the specifics – thus they are still 'perfectly acceptable autonomous decisions' in most people's minds.
Although we planned to treat and discharge the patients according to the mentioned protocols, the time when the patients were transferred into or out of ICU may depend greatly on when the surgery was complete, availability of bed in ordinary ward, and the decision made in day or night shift.
