Bureaucratic Politics & Tactical Use of Committees

With the publication of Graham Allison's Essence of Decision the "bureaucratic politics" model added a new dimension to the decision-making theory of foreign policy. Working within the "bureaucratic politics" framework Leon Sigal calls attention to the largely neglected role of committees in the decision-making process. In his analysis of the events leading to the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, he shows how various types of committees can be used tactically to forge interagency agreement on and secure compliance by governmental agencies with policy decisions. The result is a valuable contribution not only to the "bureaucratic politics" model but also to our understanding of the decision to drop the atomic bomb

Bureaucracy · Compliance (psychology · Interim · Political science · Politics · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology