"Our first audience would be decision makers, those individuals who ultimately can make decisions that help preserve or protect those areas," said Jillian Liner, one of the book's authors.
It was not assumed that consumers would be decision makers about service provision, but rather be drivers of service demand.
"I found that quote-unquote important people who were decision makers would read the reports I filed and then not follow them," Mr. Pattison says.
One process is not unilaterally more sound than the other: gut instincts may often lead the decision-maker to a good result, while the analytic path may be never-ending if the would-be decision-maker gets stalled by over-thinking.
The next day, a new child would be the decision maker.
But in a Bachmann White House, she adds, "I would be the decision maker".
The interviews were arranged and conducted by senior academics who were aware of the potential risk of bias and each deliberately sought to invite interview senior individuals who were not otherwise connected with the project or with the partner organisations in the consortium but would be important decision makers or decision influences in the wider acceptability of the proposed approach.
Under the parliamentary committee's proposal, an appointed government official would be the decision-maker.
In response to the issues that emerged from last week's consultation, Graça Machel, a member of the UN's high-level panel, asked delegates: "What needs to change in 2015?" A simple answer would be for decision-makers to reread the promises made by world leaders in the millennium declaration on freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, respect for nature and shared responsibility.
She said a physician might even offend a family, for example, by asking the actual patient, a mother, for direction on care, when the father or the eldest son would be the decision-maker.
And Ms. Lobel said that in case of serious illness, their families have agreed that each woman would be the sole decision maker for the other.
