ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with insights from the Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (wrr) report and the improvements suggested by the wrr. It also deals with the empirical appearance of sluggish decision-making. The chapter contains an answer to the question 'What is going on?' It indicates why decision-making is such a long-drawn-out process. The chapter examines the position that enrichment may well be hampered by a concentration of decisions as suggested by the wrr. It contains an argumentation regarding the quality of decision-making. The chapter attempts to answer the question 'How to judge?' In 1991, the wrr was commissioned by the government to find out how decision-making on the infrastructure could be speeded up. Enrichment has to do with the changing of content and process. Both are required, but hard to reconcile. It is precisely the will to achieve fixation that leads to a specific objective, a specific solution and a specific realisation trajectory being put on a pedestal.
