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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"rational actor"”.
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The 1993 North Korean Nuclear Crisis: A Foreign Policy Analysis
In this paper I apply the Rational Actor model to the 1993-1994 North Korean Nuclear Crisis. I begin with two hypotheses: 1) North Korea attempted nuclear armament because of its perception of threat from South Korea and the United States; 2) North Korea attempted nuclear armament because it wanted …
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A theory of group decision-making applied to the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis decisions
… affecting another might be called the “rational actor model”. This model treats the state as the entity reaching the decision. The decision itself is seen as behavior that reflects a rational purpose or intent. The central concepts of the model center around the calculated weighing of …
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Japan's Security Decisions: Allison's Conceptual Models and Missile Defense Policy
… policy following the Cold War and 9/11. The rational actor, organizational process, and bureaucratic politics models are applied to Japan's 2003 decision to field a missile defense system through a qualitative analysis of English-language secondary hard-copy and online sources. Some Japanese …
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U.S. policy of conditioning China's most-favored-nation status on intellectual property protection, 1991-1993
… of U.S. foreign policy interests, societal actors, institutions (the presidency or Congress), and the interaction between these institutions in the MFN decisionmaking process. By applying three conceptual models -- the rational actor model, the interest group model, and the interbranch …
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The Cult of the Persuasive: The U.S. Military’s Aversion to Coercion in Security Assistance
… two competing models of strategy selection—the rational actor model, and the Cult of the Persuasive. I argue that the rational actor model sufficiently explains U.S. strategy in pre-Vietnam security assistance efforts, but cannot explain U.S. advisors’ persistent reliance on persuasion in …
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Performance Management System Reform : Results-Based Budgeting in the Government of Alberta (2012-2014)
… and accountability associated with the rational actor model of performance management. In Alberta, some of the outcomes of RBB include horizontal integration, strategic policy alignment, and cultural change. Alberta’s experience with RBB also supports the constructivist model of …
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Testing environmental education interventions related to wolverine reintroduction in Colorado
… outcomes. To do so we implemented a 2X2 factorial experimental design comparing the traditional science communication approach, or rational actor model ("control"), to a theory driven treatment combining the Constructivist Learning Model and emotional appeals using anthropomorphism …
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Strategic goods provision in Hezbollah's resistance
… might exist. This paper integrates key rational actor and electoral models, and tests the resulting predictions against empirical data on Hezbollah's provision of goods and services. Two basic types of models link success in violent contestation to the provision of goods to a restricted …
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The Nuclearization of Iran: Motivations, Intentions and America's Responses
… nuclear weapons. Using Graham Allison's Rational Actor Model of national decision-making, this thesis investigates three questions: 1) Iran's motivations for obtaining nuclear weapons; 2) Iran's strategies for actual use of nuclear weapons; and, 3) alternative political frameworks for the …
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Decision-Making in Early-Stage Startups: How Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors Evaluate Uncertainty
… draws upon three decision-making models: the Rational Actor Model (RAM), the Heuristics and Biases model (H&B), and the Naturalistic Decision-Making model (NDM) to explore what motivates VCs and AIs to choose, for instance, “Company A over Company B.” Semi-structured interviews were conducted …
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The political economy of conflict between indigenous communities and dominant societies: adivasis, Maoist insurgents and the state in the central Indian tribal belt
… in order to encourage their support. The actors at the macro and micro levels have very different reasons for participating in the insurgency. The insurgent leaders aim to capture state power through a Protracted People’s War, while the objectives of supporters at the micro-level tend to …
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Translating Foreign Ideas into Domestic Practices : Pharmaceutical Policies in Laos and Vietnam
… and Vietnam are studied in order to identify factors facilitating or restraining policy processes—and to discuss the effects of diffusion. In the 1980s reforms were initiated leading to far-reaching economic liberalisation in Laos and Vietnam. These reforms have affected all segments of …
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Beyond guns or butter : towards a multi-level analysis of South Africa's strategic defence procurement
… concepts of the two theoretical 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 …
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Nationalism or Cost-Benefit Analysis in Perception: The Logic of China’s Foreign Policy Choices in Bilateral Disputes in Post-Cold War Period
… assumes that the Chinese government is a rational actor during the timeframe covered by this research, and its foreign policy decisions in disputes are rational and consistent. This assumption is valid in all cases examined in this research, as China’s top leaders were structurally …
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The firm. Techno-organizational changes, industrial relations and performances. An enquiry on Reggio Emilia local industrial system
… conceptualizations that intended the firm as a rational actor whose aim is to produce that amount of output, given the inputs at its disposal and in accordance to technological or environmental constraints, which maximizes the revenue (see Boulding, 1942 for a past mid century state of the art …