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Article: Organizing for Foreign Policy Crises: Presidents, Advisers, and the Management of Decision Making.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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By Patrick J. Haney. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 183p. $39.50.
James M. Scott, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Patrick J. Haney examines "the ways that U.S. presidents since World War II have organized and managed advisory groups during foreign policy crises and the ways that these groups, so structured, performed the tasks of providing information, advice, and analysis" (p. 1). Through this examination, Haney seeks to explore the links between structure and process, guided by the proposition that the "institutional model" established by the president "ought to have empirically discernible effects on the political process of decision ...