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Bureaucracies at War - Tyler Jost

Bureaucracies at War

The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation

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Buch | Hardcover
408 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-30720-8 (ISBN)
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A rethinking of how bureaucracy shapes foreign policy. Through an unprecedented exploration of bureaucratic institutions inside China, India, Pakistan, and the United States, Jost shows why bureaucracy helps to avoid miscalculation. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, history, sociology, and area studies.
Why do states start conflicts they ultimately lose? Why do leaders possess inaccurate expectations of their prospects for victory? Bureaucracies at War examines how national security institutions shape the quality of bureaucratic information upon which leaders base their choice for conflict – which institutional designs provide the best counsel, why those institutions perform better, and why many leaders fail to adopt them. Jost argues that the same institutions that provide the best information also empower the bureaucracy to punish the leader. Thus, miscalculation on the road to war is often the tragic consequence of how leaders resolve the trade-off between good information and political security. Employing an original cross-national data set and detailed explorations of the origins and consequences of institutions inside China, India, Pakistan, and the United States, this book explores why bureaucracy helps to avoid disaster, how bureaucratic competition produces better information, and why institutional design is fundamentally political.

Tyler Jost is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He is also an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His research explores bureaucracy, national security decision-making, and Chinese foreign policy. He earned his doctorate from the Department of Government at Harvard University and received postdoctoral fellowships from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Columbia University, and Dartmouth College. While writing this book, he conducted research in nineteen archives and libraries across China, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

1. Introduction; 2. An institutional theory of miscalculation; 3. The world of national security institutions; 4. China under Mao; 5. China after Mao; 6. India; 7. Pakistan; 8. The United States during the Early Cold War; 9. Conclusion; Appendix A: National security institutions data set; Appendix B: Archival and interview data collection.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 768 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-009-30720-7 / 1009307207
ISBN-13 978-1-009-30720-8 / 9781009307208
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