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Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy second edition Edition

by Priscilla Clapp (Author), Morton Halperin (Author), Arnold Kanter (Collaborator)
4 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews
ISBN-13: 978-0815734093
ISBN-10: 0815734093
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Brookings Institution Press; second edition edition (October 18, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0815734093
  • ISBN-13: 978-0815734093
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #233,392 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsEssential Reference for Understanding Bad as Well as Unethical Decisions
By Robert David STEELE Vivas HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWER on July 12, 2003
Format: Paperback
Edit of 22 Dec 07 to stress importance of this book today, and add links. This books says that one of the rules of the game is to lie to the President if you think you can get away with it. Dick Cheney has created three new rules:

1. Ignore the President, Hijack the Presidency

2. Subvert Congress and Article 1 of the Constitution

3. Lie to the People, Over and Over, Even After the Lie is Known to be a Lie

This book is quite extraordinary. It is one of perhaps ten that I consider to be lifetime essential references for any national security official--not because I condone the rules for subverting and manipulating policy that the book documents, but in order to defend against them, for in the aggregate, they all undermine both the Constitution and the power of Congress.

Part I is an introduction to national security interests, the organizations within the government that each take on a life of their own and interpret both what our foreign policy should be and how it should be pursued in their own terms, how Presidential interests--predominantly defined by domestic constituencies--compete with the bureaucracy, and how the various players from career officials to political appointees to others play against one another.

Part II, the heart of the book, dissects the many strategies for manipulating decisions within the bureacracy. The "rules of the game" include the manipulation of which agency gets the lead (tending to suppress all dissenting opinions from other agencies) to which staffer in the White House has the lead (pre-determining the outcome), to means of using foreign officials, the press, and business leaders to present supporting opinions, to manipulating the President.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsI read the first edition of this book in graduate school as it was required reading.
By Kindle Customer on February 3, 2013
Format: Paperback
It is the essential primer on how beauracracies function and dysfunction in policy making and policy execution. While serving as a graqduate fellow at the Department of State I saw its principles in action countless times. It is not popular reading for the average person, but if you are part of or interact with the U.S. government this book provides invaluable insights.
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3.0 out of 5 starsClass Requirement
By Mommakescakes on November 27, 2012
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This book was required as a class read. It provided the necessary background and information as desired. Not a book recommended for normal reading.
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