POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Standard Operating Procedure, Cuban Missile Crisis, George W. Bush

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16 Apr 2014
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Constructivism: logic of appropriateness vs. consequences; what is appropriate is internalised by decision makers. Start with emotion- feel good factor: trying to live in comfort, to decrease dissonances. Last 50 years- marginalised because tendency to say that we cannot open a brain; impossible to study decision makers best we can do is make educated guesses. Even if we got an honest decision maker to write memoirs and contribute the structure about ther decision makers; it"s still only guesses. Decision makers" memoirs written in a certain way so that they will be trusted- between the reality and what decision makers want to be seen as- large gap between the two. Dm have a specific vision of what they have done. First instinct of political science says it is impossible to understand. Attributes are only important when we want to understand something irrational. Logic of small groups and of government organisation in decision making.

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