Privatization and Reinvention Paradigms for State Governmental Administration, Consequences of

Public administrators use probability theory to account for uncertainty in many aspects of the policy process, especially the important functions of project planning and decision making. When engaged in project planning, public administrators employ probability theory to establish the likelihood of events that effect the allocation of scarce public resources. As a decision-making tool, probability theory is used in many techniques of policy analysis, especially when administrators are called upon to assess the expected benefits of alternative courses of action.