J Eli Margolis
Biographic Data
| ID | 9203855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Eli Margolis |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Eli |
| FAMILY NAME | Margolis |
| SIGNATURE | MARGOLIS J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | a US Department of Defense E-mail |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Officials Use Intelligence Analysis
What explains variation in how officials use intelligence analysis? How can one official acting on one issue within one bureaucratic and political reality seem alternately to use, misuse, and not use analysis at different times? This article proposes an answer by introducing a new theory and evaluating it with a plausibility probe centered on Robert McNamara’s experiences during the Vietnam War. The theory claims that officials use analysis adapt…
How Officials Use Intelligence Analysis
How do officials use intelligence analysis? This article proposes a working model based on insights from psychological research into information processing and persuasion. It suggests that officials use analysis adaptively across four stages and four types of use. It advances intelligence studies by clarifying “use,” accounting for mixed evidence, and improving explanations of variation between officials and in the same official over time. The wo…
Understanding Political Stability and Instability
This paper proposes a new understanding of political stability. In doing so, it reviews and critiques previous definitions, outlines five operational concepts, and identifies implications important to the practice of stability operations, current US government policy, and academic research. It finds political stability to be the degree to which formal roles and structures coincide with informal roles and structures within a political object. The …
Understanding Political Stability and Instability
This paper proposes a new understanding of political stability. In doing so, it reviews and critiques previous definitions, outlines five operational concepts, and identifies implications important to the practice of stability operations, current US government policy, and academic research. It finds political stability to be the degree to which formal roles and structures coincide with informal roles and structures within a political object. The …
Understanding Political Stability and Instability
This paper proposes a new understanding of political stability. In doing so, it reviews and critiques previous definitions, outlines five operational concepts, and identifies implications important to the practice of stability operations, current US government policy, and academic research. It finds political stability to be the degree to which formal roles and structures coincide with informal roles and structures within a political object. The …
How Officials Use Intelligence Analysis
How do officials use intelligence analysis? This article proposes a working model based on insights from psychological research into information processing and persuasion. It suggests that officials use analysis adaptively across four stages and four types of use. It advances intelligence studies by clarifying “use,” accounting for mixed evidence, and improving explanations of variation between officials and in the same official over time. The wo…
How Officials Use Intelligence Analysis
What explains variation in how officials use intelligence analysis? How can one official acting on one issue within one bureaucratic and political reality seem alternately to use, misuse, and not use analysis at different times? This article proposes an answer by introducing a new theory and evaluating it with a plausibility probe centered on Robert McNamara’s experiences during the Vietnam War. The theory claims that officials use analysis adapt…
Computer Science (3 works) · Computer security (2 works) · Intelligence analysis (2 works) · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Business (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Government (linguistics (1 work)