Reluctant Customers: Presidents and Policy Advice
Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: In Groupthink or Deadlock, Paul Kowert has written a clever but ultimately unsatisfactory book about the nexus between leaders and their advisers when they deal with weighty foreign and domestic policy issues. Kowert's study fits neatly within the steadily growing literature on foreign policy decision making, a field persistently ignored by mainstream international relations that has nonetheless developed into a cumulative, multidisciplinary part of the discipline. At the same time, Kowert's study makes a contribution to presidential studies and indeed, albeit moderately, to leadership studies in political science at large. Kowert builds upon the pioneering work of Irving Janis (1972), Alexander George (1980), and Margaret Hermann (1980). He also fits into a stream of recent, highly related political-psychological studies of leader–adviser interaction in US foreign policymaking by such young scholars as Patrick Haney (1997), Thomas Preston (2000), and David Houghton (2001). Kowert's main...
Source: International Studies Review
Author: Paul't Hart
Institution: Utrecht University
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2069989149