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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Bureaucratic Politics"”.
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MAKING LEGIBILITY WORK: THE BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS OF STATE KNOWLEDGE
… relief interventions. These efforts depend on a bureaucratic workforce tasked with implementing data gathering. However, in weak states, data-gathering bureaucracies often lack Weberian features such as professionalism, hierarchy, career stability, and clear incentives. Moreover, states with …
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The Illusion of Collaboration and Bureaucratic Politics in India
… outset, the study begins to understand India’s bureaucratic functioning from a historical perspective and takes an organizational theory approach to understanding how organizational structures influence the decisions that organizational actors make. The single biggest finding and contribution of …
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Organizational and bureaucratic politics in Soviet defense decisionmaking : a case study of the Soviet air defense forces
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1988
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U.S. Foreign Policy toward Sino-U.S. Rappraochement in the Early 1970s : A Study of Secrecy in Bureaucratic Politics.
… in the China policy to counteract the danger of bureaucratic leaks and the possibility of a conservative backlash in American domestic politics. At policy planning level, however, Nixon and Kissinger were still dependent on interdepartmental policy studies by the bureaucracy, mainly the NSC staff …
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US FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS NIGERIA: INVESTIGATING AMERICA’S DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN NIGERIA DURING CLINTON’S PRESIDENCY
… explain causes of this policy failure. Using the Bureaucratic Politics Model of Foreign Policy Analysis, this thesis examines the causal mechanism of the United States’ failure to effectively promote democracy in Nigeria. This research provides an original contribution to knowledge by arguing that …
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United States post-Cold War drug and trade policy and Mexico
… theory, and a compartmentalisation (bureaucratic politics) theory.
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The Deepwater Program : a case study in organizational transformation inspired by the parallel interaction of internal and external core groups
… timeframe yield an explanation that points to bureaucratic politics and status dynamics as the most likely cause. In particular, the paper finds that the Coast Guard's low status (vis-à-vis other organizations within the Department of Transportation) combined with the Deepwater community's high …
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Force and the United States after Vietnam: Allison applied
… maker. One alternative to this approach is the Bureaucratic Politics paradigm proposed by Graham Allison. To test the explanatory power of this decision making model in the post-Vietnam era, this thesis applies the specific propositions of Graham Allison's "Governmental Politics Model" …
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Sino-American military relations determinants of policy and corresponding military responsiveness
… on more complex domestic political agendas and bureaucratic politics in the DoD that led to more enduring changes in policy and implementation. This examination found: the CDRUSPACOM was the most engaged and consistent advocate of increased military-to-military relations across a broad spectrum …
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Foreign Policy Mismanagement During American Presidential Transitions
… magnified by other issues including groupthink, bureaucratic politics, and Congressional advocacy. The Transitional Limitations Model is introduced to explain the role of transitional limitations and multiple intervening variables in causing American foreign policy miscalculations during the …
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Japan's Security Decisions: Allison's Conceptual Models and Missile Defense Policy
… by delving into the unique themes of Japanese politics. The climate in which this policy decision is made is framed through a discussion of the strategic environment and Japanese defense policy following the Cold War and 9/11. The rational actor, organizational process, and bureaucratic …
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Future naval ship procurement : a case study of the Navy's next-generation destroyer
… to programs that are actually very expensive. Bureaucratic politics can cause the Navy to spend money on superfluous features unjustified by strategic requirements. Private industry can push new, expensive technology on the Navy. Members of Congress can include pork-barrel provisions to bring …
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Information friction : information technology and military performance
… structure of the external battlefield, internal bureaucratic politics, and patterns of human-computer interaction can either exacerbate or relieve friction, which thus degrades or improves performance. Technological determinism alone cannot account for the increasing complexity and variable …
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Dealing with danger : threat perception and policy preferences
… model and need not be solely explained by bureaucratic politics or error.
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Allied policy towards occupied Greece: the 1941-44 famine
… use is to be made of the literature on bureaucratic politics and the flow of information within organizations, for both Britain and the U.S.; also the relation of their respective decision-making processes - on the basis of intelligence available at the - to their response to the famine …
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What to Make of Strategic Narratives in International Relations? – An Integrated Framework for Strategic Narrative Analysis and the Study of France’s Protracted Military Intervention in the Sahel
… by France’s semi-presidential system, although bureaucratic politics and France’s parallel public policy narrative on Africa weakened it. Congruence with French security policy objective contributed to narrative probability, but incongruence with structural realities of French economic and …
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Beyond guns or butter : towards a multi-level analysis of South Africa's strategic defence procurement
… approaches, the rational actor approach and the bureaucratic politics approach, focus on various issues embedded in the arms deal at discrete levels of analysis-the international systemic level. the state (organizational or bureaucratic) level, and the individual level-to generate a rough-cut …
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The Federal Banking Regulators: Agency Capture, Regulatory Failure, And Industry Collapse During The 2008 Financial Crisis
… implementation, public administration, and bureaucratic politics. This literature suggests that discretion is a source of agency power. However, my findings indicate that in a policy area like banking regulation, which is highly complex and of low public salience, bureaucratic discretion …
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How Presidential Campaign Decisions on Foreign Policy Positions and Advisers are Made and Can Reshape International Relations: A Bush 2000 Case Study
Since the end of the Cold War, America has generated a dangerous paradox in global affairs. Every president from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump has entered office with little foreign policy experience. Yet these men were instantly granted vast powers, which impacted global events. This thesis …