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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... , anthropology, and political science (Neack, Hay, and Haney 1995). Once regarded as anathema to the scientific study of foreign policy, the decision-making approach has by now gained an established position as 6 Beyond Groupthink.
... , anthropology, and political science (Neack, Hay, and Haney 1995). Once regarded as anathema to the scientific study of foreign policy, the decision-making approach has by now gained an established position as 6 Beyond Groupthink.
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... position as an indispensable counterweight and complement to more general, abstract, and parsimonious theories of international relations and foreign policy (Voss and Dorsey 1992). It is specifically geared toward explaining policies ...
... position as an indispensable counterweight and complement to more general, abstract, and parsimonious theories of international relations and foreign policy (Voss and Dorsey 1992). It is specifically geared toward explaining policies ...
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... positions. One example of this would be the process of European Union policy-making with its elaborate rounds of consultation and negotiation, each of which requires issue area specialists in the member states to assess the situation ...
... positions. One example of this would be the process of European Union policy-making with its elaborate rounds of consultation and negotiation, each of which requires issue area specialists in the member states to assess the situation ...
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... position within the group of the minister or official responsible for that part of the apparatus, in particular when his colleagues begin to form a more generalized impression that he “cannot deliver” or has “gone native.” The issue of ...
... position within the group of the minister or official responsible for that part of the apparatus, in particular when his colleagues begin to form a more generalized impression that he “cannot deliver” or has “gone native.” The issue of ...
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... positions of authority; a role may grant more discretion in how it is enacted, but there are normative constraints to even the highest level positions. The cabinet officers we described had, in some instances, tens of thousands of ...
... positions of authority; a role may grant more discretion in how it is enacted, but there are normative constraints to even the highest level positions. The cabinet officers we described had, in some instances, tens of thousands of ...
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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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