Name(s):
Non-corporate decision making
Insider policy-making
Policy-making conspiracy
Unrepresentative policy makers
Undemocratic government decision-making
Restricted access to policy formulation processes
Lack of organized participation
Non-participative decision-making
Exclusion from participation in decision-making
Inequitable decision making
Political exclusion
Incidence
There was no proper public discussion, not even a congressional discussion, of the presidential decision to send US Marines into Somalia in 1992. The decision was executed within a few days and most Americans heard about it on the television news.