Beyond Groupthink: Political Group Dynamics and Foreign Policy-makingUniversity of Michigan Press, 25 mars 2010 - 390 sidor Strategic issues and crises in foreign policy are usually managed by relatively small groups of elite policymakers and their closest advisors. Since the pioneering work of Irving Janis in the early 1970s, we have known that the interplay between the members of these groups can have a profound and, indeed, at times a pernicious influence on the content and quality of foreign policy decisions. Janis argued that "groupthink," a term he used to describe a tendency for extreme concurrence-seeking in decision-making groups, was a major cause of a number of U.S. foreign policy fiascoes. And yet not all small groups suffer from groupthink; in fact many high-level bodies are handicapped by an inability to achieve consensus at all. Beyond Groupthink builds upon and extends Janis's legacy. The contributors develop a richer understanding of group dynamics by drawing on alternate views of small-group dynamics. The relevant literature is reviewed and the different perspectives are explored in detailed case studies. The contributors link the group process to the broader organizational and political context of the policy process and stress the need to develop a multi-level understanding of the collegial policy-making process, combining the insights drawn from micro-level theories with those derived from study of broader political phenomena. The contributors include Alexander George, Sally Riggs Fuller, Paul D. Hoyt, Ramon J. Aldag, Max V. Metselaar, Bertjan Verbeek, J. Thomas Preston, Jean A. Garrison, and Yaacov Y. I. Vertzberger. This book should appeal to political scienctists and international relations specialists, as well as researchers in social psychology, public administration, and management interested in group decision-making processes. Paul 't Hart is Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Leiden University and Scientific Director of of the Leiden-Rotterdam Crisis Research Center. Eric Stern is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. Bengt Sundelius is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. |
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... Decision makers are often overworked, understaffed, and struggling to cope with one deadline after another. Making strategic foreign policy decisions tends to be full of pitfalls, endangering interests, reputations, and careers ...
... Decision makers are often overworked, understaffed, and struggling to cope with one deadline after another. Making strategic foreign policy decisions tends to be full of pitfalls, endangering interests, reputations, and careers ...
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... decision makers would fall prey to premature burnout, cumulative exhaustion, and even breakdown. Yet as Janis (1972) so eloquently noted, there is a risk that maintaining such group sanctuaries may have insidious effects on the policy ...
... decision makers would fall prey to premature burnout, cumulative exhaustion, and even breakdown. Yet as Janis (1972) so eloquently noted, there is a risk that maintaining such group sanctuaries may have insidious effects on the policy ...
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... decision makers and maintain organizational identity and integrity. During the course of their interactions, members of policy groups socially construct which international, domestic, and organizational realities they choose to enact ...
... decision makers and maintain organizational identity and integrity. During the course of their interactions, members of policy groups socially construct which international, domestic, and organizational realities they choose to enact ...
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... decision makers, and work with more realistic populations of subjects than undergraduate students in Psychology, Business, and Political Science (see Minix 1982). Yet such critiques are only valid up to a point. Even in the research ...
... decision makers, and work with more realistic populations of subjects than undergraduate students in Psychology, Business, and Political Science (see Minix 1982). Yet such critiques are only valid up to a point. Even in the research ...
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... decision regime. The entire process takes the shape of intergovernmental ... decision rules, hierarchy, and deliberation procedures) upon its process and ... makers. They do so at the risk of arriving at reductionist explanations and ...
... decision regime. The entire process takes the shape of intergovernmental ... decision rules, hierarchy, and deliberation procedures) upon its process and ... makers. They do so at the risk of arriving at reductionist explanations and ...
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Part 2 Political Group Dynamics and Foreign Policy | 151 |
Part 3 Implications | 309 |
Bibliography | 337 |
Contributors | 375 |
Index | 377 |
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Beyond Groupthink: Political Group Dynamics and Foreign Policy-making Paul 't Hart,Eric Stern,Bengt Sundelius Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 1997 |
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