POLSCI 160 Study Guide - Final Guide: Devaluation, Capital Outflow, Free Trade
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Standard operating procedures are plans of action that agencies prescribe to different problems. Give two examples of how an sop affected the cuban missile crisis. Sops provide leaders with a list of actions that a leader can take during a crisis. Because problems are fit to solutions, the information provided to the leader is already narrowed, making choices easier. In the cuban missiles crisis, ussr built missiles in cuba out in the open because it was an sop; this made their detection by the us very easy. President kennedy wanted a limited airstrike on the missiles in cuba, but that choice was not available in the sops that were provided to him. Organizational process perspective says that governments are composed of different organizations with different interests and missions, and sops decide what each organization can do. Policy is the outcome of the organizations doing their work according to the sops.
