| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 384 pages) : illustrations |
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Foreign policy-making at the top : political group dynamics / Paul 't Hart, Eric K. Stern, and Bengt Sundelius -- From groupthink to contextual analysis of policy-making groups / Alexander L. George -- Challenging the mindguards : moving small group analysis beyond Groupthink / Sally Riggs Fuller and Ramon J. Aldag -- Beyond decision making in formal and informal groups : the Dutch cabinet and the West New Guinea conflict / Max V. Metselaar and Bertjan Verbeek -- Understanding small group decisions in foreign policy : process diagnosis and research procedure / Eric K. Stern and Bengt Sundelius -- Probing the plausability of newgroup syndrome : Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs / Eric K. Stern -- "Following the leader" : the impact of U.S. presidential style upon advisory group dynamics, structure, and decision / Thomas Preston -- Political manipulation within the small group : foreign policy advisors in the Carter administration / Paul D. Hoyt and Jean A. Garrison -- Collective risk taking : the decision-making group / Yaacov Y.I. Vertzberger -- From analysis to reform of policy-making groups / Paul 't Hart |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-373) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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International relations -- Decision making
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Social groups.
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Group Processes
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Negotiating.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Interpersonal Relations.
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International relations -- Decision making
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Social groups
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Buitenlandse politiek.
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Groepsbesluitvorming.
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Beleidsvorming.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hart, Paul 't
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Stern, Eric K
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Sundelius, Bengt
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| LC no. |
97003410 |
| ISBN |
9780472022779 |
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0472022776 |
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9781282555891 |
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1282555898 |
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9786612555893 |
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6612555890 |
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