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| how policies are arrived at, and implemented, in various states |
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| decision makers calculate the costs and benefits of each possible course of action, then choose the one with the highest benefits and lowest costs |
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| organizational process model |
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| foreign policy decision makers generally skip the labor-intensive porvess of identifying goals and alternative actions, relying instead for most decisions on standerdized responses or standard operating procedures |
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| government bargaining model |
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| foreign policy decisions result from the bargaining process among various government agencies with somewhat divergent interests in the outcome. |
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| misperceptions and selective perceptions |
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| taking in only some kinds of information |
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| subconscious filters through which people put the infromation coming in about the world around them |
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| picking the very best option |
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| good enough option that meets some minial criteria... finding a satisfactory solution |
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| decision makers go through two phases: first the editing phase which they frame the options available and the probabiliies of various outcomes associated with each option. Then in the evaliation phase they assess the options and choose one. |
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| individual members tend to go along with ideas they think the others support |
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| The NSC sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the freedom of US hostages held in Lebenon, and then used the Iranian parments to illegally fund Nicaraguan Contra rebels. (Oliver North) |
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| are coalitions of people who share a common interest in the outcome of some political issue and who organize themselves to try to influence the outcome |
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| process of talking with legislators or officials to influence their decisions on some set of issues. |
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| military-industrial complex |
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| is a huge interlocking network of governmental agencies, industrial corporations, and research institutes, working together to supply a nations military forces. |
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| the range of views on foreign policy issues held by the citizens of a state. |
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| rally round the flag syndrome |
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| when the public has increased support for governemnt leaders during wartime, at least in the short term |
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| nondemocratic governments |
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| no democratic country has ever fought (warred) with another democratic country... if every nation was a democracy, will there be global peace? |
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