... which they are used (Dunn, 1981). The purpose of this paper is to address the decision making model applied in China by illustrating the typical rural economic policies that have been made in the last five decades. In this essay, author will focus on analysing Mao's Agricultural Reform and Deng's Agricultural Reform in the policy process of decision-making and giving relevant evaluations to these two paradigms. Decision-making models of rationality and incrementalism The Rational Actor Model (Rationality) occurs in a very methodological, neat, problem solving process. Its features include the appraisal of problem, to identify the goals and rank their order, to canvass the possible alternatives, to consider the consequences of each alternative and finally to select the alternative that most closely matches the referred goals (Hill, 1997). In the Incremental Model (Incrementalism), decisions are made through small or incremental moves on particular problems rather than through a comprehensive reform program, just like ...

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