POLI 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Salmon P. Chase, Yes Minister, Standard Operating Procedure
18 Apr 2018
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Starting assumption that structural realists have is that states are rational actors. All the policies are not always in sync but policies may be contradictory, there is no way to explain them if you start with the assumption of a rational unitary actor. Example; us on tobacco ; each part of the government had their own distinctive: parts may each be pursuing their own goals policy and does what they think is best. On tobacco pits the dept of agriculture versus the surgeon general. Different parts of the government seem to be doing different parts of the sum. Wanted to look at how the cuban missile crisis unfolded through three competing approaches: model 1; system level, model 2; organization process; process of decision making and how policies are implemented, model 3; bureaucratic politics. Organizational process; policy decisions versus policy implementation- state leaders pursue the broad interests of the country (us in the 1950 had significant military advancement and when the.
