G Matthew Bonham
Biographic Data
| ID | 2234749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Matthew Bonham |
| GIVEN NAMES | G Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonham |
| SIGNATURE | BONHAM G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
CHAPTER SIX. Explanation of the Unexpected: The Syrian Intervention in Jordan in 1970
Thought and Action in Foreign Policy: Proceedings of the London Conference on Cognitive Process Models of Foreign Policy March 1973
The Disruptive and Transformative Potential of Hypertext in the Classroom: Implications for Active Learning
This article describes a further extension of a strategy to move from a teacher-oriented to a student-oriented learning environment through the use of “collaborative hypertext.” Students were trained in the use of MidasWeb, a Web-based environment for the organization, storage, and retrieval of hypertext documents and images. Over the course of the term students worked in teams to construct their MidasWeb sites by developing the underlying concep…
The Limited Test-Ban Agreement: Emergence of New Knowledge Structures in International Negotiation
An analysis of cognitive maps constructed from exchanges between President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev on the test–ban issue suggests cultural differences in the basic knowledge structures used to represent political reality. Soviet negotiators, including Premier Khrushchev, use"processual"representations, while U.S. negotiators, including President Kennedy, use"procedural"representations. A comparison of the negotiations over time reveals the…
Attribution Theory and Arab Images of the Gulf War
This article describes the results of an in-depth interview study of Arab elites in the wake of the Gulf war, research that only partially supports a crucial finding of research on actor-observer differences in social attribution. Although the aggregated explanations of these Arab respondents were consistent with the predictions of the theory, the attributions of Iraq's behavior by Egyptian elites, and attributions of the Coalition's behavior by …
A Discursive Practices Approach to Collective Decision-Making
Using a discursive frame of meaning, Coleman's notions of the power and interests of actors in a collective decision-making process are reoriented to emphasize the power of competing understandings of a policy situation. The contribution of actors to the collective decision-making process has an impact through their association with various idea elements or discursive practices which comprise their cognitive maps. The performance of a computer si…
Cognition and International Negotiation: The Historical Recovery of Discursive Space
Bonham, G. M., Jönsson, C., Persson, S., Shapiro, M. J. Cognition and International Negotiation: The Historical Recovery of Discursive Space. Cooperation and Conflict XXII, 1987, 1-19. The research reported in this article represents a continuation of work begun earlier on developing a cognitive mapping approach to collective decision-making. It is based on two shifts in the structure of previous theoretical thinking. First, the emphasis is on di…
Decision-Making in the Face of Uncertainty: Attributions of Norwegian and American Officials
Recent research suggests that when decision-makers are confronted with uncertainty they are more likely to engage in simple-minded thinking, such as the judgmental heuristics that have been studied by attribution theorists. In this article we examine how foreign policy decision-makers in Norway and the United States struggled with the uncertainties that surrounded a series of incidents in northern Norway involving Soviet ships. The analysis of co…
Beyond Hegel and Marx: An Alternative Approach to the Political Role of the Wilhelmine State
State Autonomy or Class Domination: Approaches to Administrative Politics in Wilhelmine Germany
Despite increased interest in the political role of the state, attention is currently shifting away from the state's contribution to political development in Wilhelmine Germany. There are, however, a number of unresolved questions concerning the Wilhelmine state bureaucracy's role in German politics that make the abandonment of political analyses of the state premature. Earlier approaches to the Wilhelmine administration have argued that it was e…
The October War: Changes in Cognitive Orientation toward the Middle East Conflict
In this paper we will examine adjustments that foreign policy officials make in their thinking to accommodate new information. In 1971–1972 and again in 1974–1975 a sample of American foreign policy officials was interviewed about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Cognitive maps constructed from the interviews were used to simulate reactions of the policy officials to the October 1973 war. A comparison of simulations based on the pre-war and the post-wa…
A Cognitive Model of Decision-making: Application to Norwegian Oil Policy
This article attempts to increase our understanding of cognitive processes of policy- making by reporting the application of a model of individual decision-making. The application of the model is based on cognitive maps obtained from interviews which were conducted with Norwegian oil policy officials before and after the Bravo blow out in Norway's Ekofisk oil field. A comparison of simulation results for two groups of policy officials, environmen…
Thought and Action in Foreign Policy
The papers assembled here constitute, and to some extent represent, widely disparate views of foreign policy thinking and decision-making. As is the case with almost any collective enterprise, it is possible to suggest some noteworthy resemblances among the contributions to this volume and to indicate grounds for distinguishing them from other “approaches.” Indeed it was a belief in the distinctiveness of the work of the contributors, all of whom…
The foreign policy decision-maker simulation
The major theoretical presupposition of our model of foreign-policy decision-making is that the beliefs of the decision-makers are central to the study of decision outputs and probably account for much of the variance in international politics. Beliefs represent both the congealed experiences of the decision-maker and his expectations about the decision environment. In the former sense, they are his decisions about the significance of past "event…
Cognitive Process and Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Journal Article Cognitive Process and Foreign Policy Decision-Making Get access Michael J. Shapiro, Michael J. Shapiro Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar G. Matthew Bonham G. Matthew Bonham Department of Political Science, The American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volum…
Simulating international disarmament negotiations
Although the era of has already begun, we know very little about processes of international negotiation. Discussions about the future of Vietnam are being conducted in Paris, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks are continuing in Vienna and Helsinki, and in Brussels and Luxembourg negotiations to enlarge the European Community have made substantial progress, but scholarly research on negotiation is still in the pre-theory stage. Most of the literature…
Participation in Regional Parliamentary Assemblies: Effects on Attitudes of Scandinavian Parliamentarians
Scandinavian Parliamentarians: Attitudes toward Political Integration
Cognitive Process and Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Journal Article Cognitive Process and Foreign Policy Decision-Making Get access Michael J. Shapiro, Michael J. Shapiro Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar G. Matthew Bonham G. Matthew Bonham Department of Political Science, The American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volum…
A Discursive Practices Approach to Collective Decision-Making
Using a discursive frame of meaning, Coleman's notions of the power and interests of actors in a collective decision-making process are reoriented to emphasize the power of competing understandings of a policy situation. The contribution of actors to the collective decision-making process has an impact through their association with various idea elements or discursive practices which comprise their cognitive maps. The performance of a computer si…
The October War: Changes in Cognitive Orientation toward the Middle East Conflict
In this paper we will examine adjustments that foreign policy officials make in their thinking to accommodate new information. In 1971–1972 and again in 1974–1975 a sample of American foreign policy officials was interviewed about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Cognitive maps constructed from the interviews were used to simulate reactions of the policy officials to the October 1973 war. A comparison of simulations based on the pre-war and the post-wa…
Simulating international disarmament negotiations
Although the era of has already begun, we know very little about processes of international negotiation. Discussions about the future of Vietnam are being conducted in Paris, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks are continuing in Vienna and Helsinki, and in Brussels and Luxembourg negotiations to enlarge the European Community have made substantial progress, but scholarly research on negotiation is still in the pre-theory stage. Most of the literature…
Participation in Regional Parliamentary Assemblies: Effects on Attitudes of Scandinavian Parliamentarians
The Limited Test-Ban Agreement: Emergence of New Knowledge Structures in International Negotiation
An analysis of cognitive maps constructed from exchanges between President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev on the test–ban issue suggests cultural differences in the basic knowledge structures used to represent political reality. Soviet negotiators, including Premier Khrushchev, use"processual"representations, while U.S. negotiators, including President Kennedy, use"procedural"representations. A comparison of the negotiations over time reveals the…
Cognition and International Negotiation: The Historical Recovery of Discursive Space
Bonham, G. M., Jönsson, C., Persson, S., Shapiro, M. J. Cognition and International Negotiation: The Historical Recovery of Discursive Space. Cooperation and Conflict XXII, 1987, 1-19. The research reported in this article represents a continuation of work begun earlier on developing a cognitive mapping approach to collective decision-making. It is based on two shifts in the structure of previous theoretical thinking. First, the emphasis is on di…
A Cognitive Model of Decision-making: Application to Norwegian Oil Policy
This article attempts to increase our understanding of cognitive processes of policy- making by reporting the application of a model of individual decision-making. The application of the model is based on cognitive maps obtained from interviews which were conducted with Norwegian oil policy officials before and after the Bravo blow out in Norway's Ekofisk oil field. A comparison of simulation results for two groups of policy officials, environmen…
Attribution Theory and Arab Images of the Gulf War
This article describes the results of an in-depth interview study of Arab elites in the wake of the Gulf war, research that only partially supports a crucial finding of research on actor-observer differences in social attribution. Although the aggregated explanations of these Arab respondents were consistent with the predictions of the theory, the attributions of Iraq's behavior by Egyptian elites, and attributions of the Coalition's behavior by …
State Autonomy or Class Domination: Approaches to Administrative Politics in Wilhelmine Germany
Despite increased interest in the political role of the state, attention is currently shifting away from the state's contribution to political development in Wilhelmine Germany. There are, however, a number of unresolved questions concerning the Wilhelmine state bureaucracy's role in German politics that make the abandonment of political analyses of the state premature. Earlier approaches to the Wilhelmine administration have argued that it was e…
The Disruptive and Transformative Potential of Hypertext in the Classroom: Implications for Active Learning
This article describes a further extension of a strategy to move from a teacher-oriented to a student-oriented learning environment through the use of “collaborative hypertext.” Students were trained in the use of MidasWeb, a Web-based environment for the organization, storage, and retrieval of hypertext documents and images. Over the course of the term students worked in teams to construct their MidasWeb sites by developing the underlying concep…
Decision-Making in the Face of Uncertainty: Attributions of Norwegian and American Officials
Recent research suggests that when decision-makers are confronted with uncertainty they are more likely to engage in simple-minded thinking, such as the judgmental heuristics that have been studied by attribution theorists. In this article we examine how foreign policy decision-makers in Norway and the United States struggled with the uncertainties that surrounded a series of incidents in northern Norway involving Soviet ships. The analysis of co…
Scandinavian Parliamentarians: Attitudes toward Political Integration
Scandinavian Parliamentarians: Attitudes toward Political Integration
Participation in Regional Parliamentary Assemblies: Effects on Attitudes of Scandinavian Parliamentarians
Simulating international disarmament negotiations
Although the era of has already begun, we know very little about processes of international negotiation. Discussions about the future of Vietnam are being conducted in Paris, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks are continuing in Vienna and Helsinki, and in Brussels and Luxembourg negotiations to enlarge the European Community have made substantial progress, but scholarly research on negotiation is still in the pre-theory stage. Most of the literature…
Cognitive Process and Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Journal Article Cognitive Process and Foreign Policy Decision-Making Get access Michael J. Shapiro, Michael J. Shapiro Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar G. Matthew Bonham G. Matthew Bonham Department of Political Science, The American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volum…
The foreign policy decision-maker simulation
The major theoretical presupposition of our model of foreign-policy decision-making is that the beliefs of the decision-makers are central to the study of decision outputs and probably account for much of the variance in international politics. Beliefs represent both the congealed experiences of the decision-maker and his expectations about the decision environment. In the former sense, they are his decisions about the significance of past "event…
Thought and Action in Foreign Policy
The papers assembled here constitute, and to some extent represent, widely disparate views of foreign policy thinking and decision-making. As is the case with almost any collective enterprise, it is possible to suggest some noteworthy resemblances among the contributions to this volume and to indicate grounds for distinguishing them from other “approaches.” Indeed it was a belief in the distinctiveness of the work of the contributors, all of whom…
A Cognitive Model of Decision-making: Application to Norwegian Oil Policy
This article attempts to increase our understanding of cognitive processes of policy- making by reporting the application of a model of individual decision-making. The application of the model is based on cognitive maps obtained from interviews which were conducted with Norwegian oil policy officials before and after the Bravo blow out in Norway's Ekofisk oil field. A comparison of simulation results for two groups of policy officials, environmen…
The October War: Changes in Cognitive Orientation toward the Middle East Conflict
In this paper we will examine adjustments that foreign policy officials make in their thinking to accommodate new information. In 1971–1972 and again in 1974–1975 a sample of American foreign policy officials was interviewed about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Cognitive maps constructed from the interviews were used to simulate reactions of the policy officials to the October 1973 war. A comparison of simulations based on the pre-war and the post-wa…
State Autonomy or Class Domination: Approaches to Administrative Politics in Wilhelmine Germany
Despite increased interest in the political role of the state, attention is currently shifting away from the state's contribution to political development in Wilhelmine Germany. There are, however, a number of unresolved questions concerning the Wilhelmine state bureaucracy's role in German politics that make the abandonment of political analyses of the state premature. Earlier approaches to the Wilhelmine administration have argued that it was e…
Beyond Hegel and Marx: An Alternative Approach to the Political Role of the Wilhelmine State
Decision-Making in the Face of Uncertainty: Attributions of Norwegian and American Officials
Recent research suggests that when decision-makers are confronted with uncertainty they are more likely to engage in simple-minded thinking, such as the judgmental heuristics that have been studied by attribution theorists. In this article we examine how foreign policy decision-makers in Norway and the United States struggled with the uncertainties that surrounded a series of incidents in northern Norway involving Soviet ships. The analysis of co…
Cognition and International Negotiation: The Historical Recovery of Discursive Space
Bonham, G. M., Jönsson, C., Persson, S., Shapiro, M. J. Cognition and International Negotiation: The Historical Recovery of Discursive Space. Cooperation and Conflict XXII, 1987, 1-19. The research reported in this article represents a continuation of work begun earlier on developing a cognitive mapping approach to collective decision-making. It is based on two shifts in the structure of previous theoretical thinking. First, the emphasis is on di…
A Discursive Practices Approach to Collective Decision-Making
Using a discursive frame of meaning, Coleman's notions of the power and interests of actors in a collective decision-making process are reoriented to emphasize the power of competing understandings of a policy situation. The contribution of actors to the collective decision-making process has an impact through their association with various idea elements or discursive practices which comprise their cognitive maps. The performance of a computer si…
Attribution Theory and Arab Images of the Gulf War
This article describes the results of an in-depth interview study of Arab elites in the wake of the Gulf war, research that only partially supports a crucial finding of research on actor-observer differences in social attribution. Although the aggregated explanations of these Arab respondents were consistent with the predictions of the theory, the attributions of Iraq's behavior by Egyptian elites, and attributions of the Coalition's behavior by …
The Limited Test-Ban Agreement: Emergence of New Knowledge Structures in International Negotiation
An analysis of cognitive maps constructed from exchanges between President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev on the test–ban issue suggests cultural differences in the basic knowledge structures used to represent political reality. Soviet negotiators, including Premier Khrushchev, use"processual"representations, while U.S. negotiators, including President Kennedy, use"procedural"representations. A comparison of the negotiations over time reveals the…
The Disruptive and Transformative Potential of Hypertext in the Classroom: Implications for Active Learning
This article describes a further extension of a strategy to move from a teacher-oriented to a student-oriented learning environment through the use of “collaborative hypertext.” Students were trained in the use of MidasWeb, a Web-based environment for the organization, storage, and retrieval of hypertext documents and images. Over the course of the term students worked in teams to construct their MidasWeb sites by developing the underlying concep…
Thought and Action in Foreign Policy: Proceedings of the London Conference on Cognitive Process Models of Foreign Policy March 1973
CHAPTER SIX. Explanation of the Unexpected: The Syrian Intervention in Jordan in 1970
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