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Graham T. Allison: Essence of Decision
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Graham T. Allison: Essence of Decision
by: Donald Turner
Model II: Organizational Process
Essence of Decision
Questions
- Takes a look at the Cuban Missile Crisis
- The process of decision making in foreign affairs
- Three different models: rational policy, organization process, and bureaucratic politics.
1. What is the most significant difference between Model I and Model III?
2. Which Model is structured on governmental organizations?
- looks at the different departments of a given government. The idea is that the routine operations of each “organization” within a government greatly affects a nation’s decision making process.
- Allison points out that (1971), “projects involving multiple organizations to perform high degrees of precision and coordination are not likely to succeed” (p. 472).
History
History cont.
Model III: Bureaucratic Politics
- Graham T. Allison was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on March 23, 1940.
- He was born and raised during WWII and lived through the entire cold war.
- He earned a BA in History from Harvard, a BA and MA from Oxford, and a PhD in Political Science from Harvard.
- He is also the founding dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
- takes decision making from a political stand point rather than a rational one.
- In this model it is not the group as a whole or the individual organization that has the power but a select group of government officials who sit at the head these organizations.
Model I: Rational Policy
References
Model III: Bureaucratic Politics
- History.com Staff (2010). Cuban missile crisis. Retrieved from. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis
- NNDB (2014). Graham t. Allison. Retrieved from. http://www.nndb.com/people/445/000119088/
- Allison, G. (1971). Chapter 7: Decision-making process theory. In M. Genest (Ed.), Conflict and Cooperation: Evolving Theories of International Relations, 2nd Edition (pp. 460-485). Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004.
- The players in this particular model share the overall power of a nation’s decision making process.
- Several individuals all with different intentions pull in all of their contributions to find the most favorable outcome.
- The most popular model analysts use to explain the behavior of a nations governments.
- Model I tries to get us to look at a nation’s (The Soviet Union in this case) choices and actions from a rational/logical view.
- One way that Allison attempts to do this is by considering four main points: a nation’s goals and objectives, options, consequences, and choice. In this model the government is “unitary actor”.
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