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Informationen zum Autor Mark Schafer is professor of political science at Louisiana State University. He has published more than thirty-five articles in such publications as Journal of Politics! Journal of Conflict Resolution! and International Studies Quarterly! and! with Stephen Walker! he is the editor of Beliefs and Leadership in World Politics. Schafer is the past president of the Foreign Policy Analysis section of the International Studies Association and has received the Erik Erikson Award for Early Career Achievement from the International Society of Political Psychology. Scott Crichlow is associate professor of political science at West Virginia University. His work concerns foreign-policy decision making! international relations! and political psychology! and has been published in International Studies Quarterly! Journal of Conflict Resolution! and Political Psychology. Klappentext Mark Schafer and Scott Crichlow identify the factors that contribute to good and bad policymaking! such as the personalities of political leaders! the structure of decision-making groups! and the nature of the exchange between participating individuals. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsPart I. Groupthink and the Quality of the Foreign-Policy Decision-Making Process 1. Introduction2. The Group and the Individual in Foreign-Policy Decision Making3. The Decision-Making Model: The Interplay of Group Processes and Psychological CharacteristicsPart II. Case Studies in American Foreign-Policy Decision Making 4. Case Studies in Low-Quality Decision Making5. Case Studies in High-Quality Decision MakingPart III. Statistical Analyses 6. The Effect of Groupthink Versus High-Quality Decision Making on Outcomes7. Individual-Level Factors Affecting the Quality of Decision MakingPart IV. Conclusions 8. The 2003 War in Iraq: How Flawed Decision Making Led to Critical Failures9. Groupthink Versus High-Quality Decision Making: Lessons and PrescriptionsAppendix A. Cases Included in the AnalysisAppendix B. Operational Definitions of Situational-Context VariablesAppendix C. Operational Definitions of Group-Structural VariablesAppendix D. Operational Definitions of Decision-Processing VariablesNotesReferencesIndex ...
