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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... role in the drama, too. In the days before “Black Thursday,” intensive negotiations had been conducted between a small group of representatives from the government with their opposition counterparts. The aim was to produce a bipartisan ...
... role in the drama, too. In the days before “Black Thursday,” intensive negotiations had been conducted between a small group of representatives from the government with their opposition counterparts. The aim was to produce a bipartisan ...
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... roles, exchange information, argue, exert and experience influence, and somehow arrive at shared understandings and decisions. The central idea underlying this book and related works on the role of small groups in the policy-making ...
... roles, exchange information, argue, exert and experience influence, and somehow arrive at shared understandings and decisions. The central idea underlying this book and related works on the role of small groups in the policy-making ...
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... role of small groups in the foreign policy process. So far, the policy-making of advisory groups has received less attention than the behavior of individual leaders, whose personalities, belief systems, problem definitions, decisional ...
... role of small groups in the foreign policy process. So far, the policy-making of advisory groups has received less attention than the behavior of individual leaders, whose personalities, belief systems, problem definitions, decisional ...
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... role played by certain committees, negotiation platforms, study groups, inner circles, and informal cliques, yet they seldom view them as comparable units of collective decision making (e.g., as Small groups) that may exhibit certain ...
... role played by certain committees, negotiation platforms, study groups, inner circles, and informal cliques, yet they seldom view them as comparable units of collective decision making (e.g., as Small groups) that may exhibit certain ...
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... role in this process in two ways: either as the forum where the key decisions are made in a collegial setting, or as crucial advisory bodies to chief executives making individual decisions.” In examining the latter, it is important to ...
... role in this process in two ways: either as the forum where the key decisions are made in a collegial setting, or as crucial advisory bodies to chief executives making individual decisions.” In examining the latter, it is important to ...
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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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