Groupthink versus high-quality decision making in international relations /
"Are good and bad outcomes significantly affected by the decision-making process itself? Indeed they are, in that certain decision-making techniques and practices limit the ability of policymakers to achieve their goals and advance the national interest. The success of policy often turns on the...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Groupthink and the Quality of the Foreign-Policy Decision-Making Process
- Introduction
- The Group and the Individual in Foreign-Policy Decision Making
- The Decision-Making Model: The Interplay of Group Processes and Psychological Characteristics
- Part II: Case Studies in American Foreign-Policy Decision Making
- Case Studies in Low-Quality Decision Making
- Case Studies in High-Quality Decision Making
- Part III: Statistical Analyses
- The Effect of Groupthink Versus High-Quality Decision Making on Outcomes
- Individual-Level Factors Affecting the Quality of Decision Making
- Part IV: Conclusions
- The 2003 War in Iraq: How Flawed Decision Making Led to Critical Failures
- Groupthink Versus High-Quality Decision Making: Lessons and Prescriptions
- Appendix A: Cases Included in the Analysis
- Appendix B: Operational Definitions of Situational-Context Variables
- Appendix C: Operational Definitions of Group-Structural Variables
- Appendix D: Operational Definitions of Decision-Processing Variables.