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Groupthink in Government: A Study of Small Groups and Policy Failure

paperback – September 1, 1994
by Hart, Paul ‘t
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ISBN-13: 9780801848902 ISBN-10: 0801848903
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding
paperback
Published
September 1, 1994
Weight
1.2 lbs
Dimensions
22.90×2.00×15.20 cm

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Groupthink in Government: A Study of Small Groups and Policy Failure by Hart, Paul ‘t. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780801848902.

Why do groups of talented and experienced individuals make disastrously bad collective judgments, such as the Kennedy administrations flawed decision to proceed with the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961? In his pioneering research on collective decision making, Irving Janis introduced the concept of "groupthink"—a deliberately Orwellian neologism—to describe such occurrences. Now, in the first book-length study of groupthink since Janiss work, Paul t Hart has provided a rigorous and systematic version of this influential theory which opens several new avenues for research.