Structure of decision : the cognitive maps of political elites /

This book outlines a new approach to the analysis of decision making based on "cognitive maps." A cognitive map is a graphic representation intended to capture the structure of a decision maker's stated beliefs about a particular problem. Following introductory chapters that develop t...

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Altri autori: Axelrod, Robert M.
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©1976.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x0vw3
Sommario:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • The cognitive mapping approach to decision making / Robert Axelrod
  • Foreign policy formation viewed cognitively / Ole Holsti
  • The analysis of cognitive maps / Robert Axelrod
  • Part II. Empirical studies of cognitive maps
  • Decision for neoimperialism : the deliberations of the British Eastern Committee in 1918 / Robert Axelrod
  • Complexity and the presidency : Gouverneur Morris in the Constitutional Convention / Stuart Ross
  • Explanation of the unexpected : the Syrian intervention in Jordan in 1970 / G. Matthew Bonham and Michael J. Shapiro
  • Strategy for the energy crisis : the case of commuter transportation policy / Fred S. Roberts
  • Comparative cognition : politics of international control of the oceans / Jeffrey Hart
  • Part III. Conclusions
  • Results / Robert Axelrod
  • Part IV. Epilogue
  • Limitations, Projects / Robert Axelrod
  • The documentary coding method / Margaret Tucker Wrightson
  • The questionnaire method / Fred S. Roberts
  • The mathematics of cognitive maps / Robert Axelrod
  • Simulation techniques / George Nozicka, G. Matthew Bonham, Michael J. Shapiro
  • Guide to source materials / Robert Axelrod.