Explaining political judgment
By: Perri 6.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781107009226
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Case studies; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Political aspects; Judgment; Decision making
Description: "What is political judgement? Why do politicians exhibit such contrasting thought styles in making decisions, even when they agree ideologically? What happens when governments with contrasting thought styles have to deal with each other? In this book Perri 6 presents a fresh, rigorous explanatory theory of judgment, its varieties and its consequences, drawing upon Durkheim and Douglas. He argues that policy makers will understand - and misunderstand - their problems and choices in ways that reproduce their own social organisation. This theory is developed by using the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 as an extended case study, examining the decision-making of the Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev regimes. Explaining political judgment is the first comprehensive study to show what a neo-Durkheimian institutional approach can offer to political science and to the social sciences generally"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. On political judgement; 2. The need for richer explanation; 3. A Durkheimian theoretical framework; 4. October 1962, before and after; 5. The Khrushchev regime; 6. The Kennedy administration; 7. The Castro revolutionary re;gime; 8. Implications; 9. Coda.