Entrepreneurial Politics And Foreign Policy
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- Published by Project MUSE in World Politics
- Vol. 24 (S1) , 151-178
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2010562
Abstract
While engineers, economists, and doctors can often prescribe a remedy for an undesirable situation by inference from a general theoretical construct, the architects of foreign policies rarely, if ever, have had such an advantage. Yet, the availability of a general theoretical construct could yield numerous benefits. To the degree that the theory were reliable and general, the foreign-policy maker would be able to deal with a wide range of concerns with confidence, at a minimum cost. For such a theory would allow him to know precisely what information would be needed to analyze the situation and how the information could be used to infer a prescription which would, with a high probability, get the desired results.Keywords
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