TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perri 6
TI  - Explaining political judgement
SN  - 978-1-107-48416-0
U1  - 320.019 23E
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Judgment--Political aspects
KW  - Decision making--Political aspects
KW  - Judgment--Political aspects--Case studies
KW  - Decision making--Political aspects--Case studies
KW  - Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 311-338; 1. On political judgement -- 2. The need for richer explanation -- 3. A Durkheimian theoretical framework -- 4. October 1962, before and after -- 5. The Khrushchev régime -- 6. The Kennedy administration -- 7. The Castro revolutionary régime -- 8. Implications -- 9. Coda
N2  - "What is political judgement? Why do politicians exhibit such contrasting thought styles in making decisions, even when they agree ideologically? What happens when governments with contrasting thought styles have to deal with each other? In this book Perri 6 presents a fresh, rigorous explanatory theory of judgment, its varieties and its consequences, drawing upon Durkheim and Douglas. He argues that policy makers will understand - and misunderstand - their problems and choices in ways that reproduce their own social organisation. This theory is developed by using the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 as an extended case study, examining the decision-making of the Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev regimes. Explaining political judgment is the first comprehensive study to show what a neo-Durkheimian institutional approach can offer to political science and to the social sciences generally"--
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