Organizational Decision Making: Authority Structures, Group Dynamics, and Policy Formation

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What is the term for the set of authorities that has the final say on policy direction and the commitment of national resources?

What term describes a single individual who has the power to make choices and stifle opposition?

What is the term for a decision unit where necessary actors are separate individuals, groups, or coalitions, and no party can force compliance on the others?

What term describes a general agreement or a unanimous decision?

What is the term for a distortion of small-group decision making where members prioritize group cohesion over problem solving?

What term refers to a set of routinized policies and procedures guiding the operation of an agency or bureaucracy?

What is the term for the solution advocated by the leader of the ultimate decision-making unit and agreed upon by the members of the unit?

What term describes when members of an ultimate decision-making unit cannot agree and are unable to make a decision or formulate a policy?

What is the term for a compromise synthetic decision by an ultimate decision unit reflecting full discussion of different options?

What term describes the result of decision making within an ultimate unit that reflects the preferences of a minority of the group?

What model describes decision making that results from competition between members motivated to protect the interests of their organizations?

What term refers to resources available to a political actor that help it influence or control policy making?

What term describes a politics that is typically anti-global, antimodern, and requires loyalty to the point of defying facts?

What term describes strong positive feelings about a group that are shared among its members and lead them to want to preserve the group at all costs?

What term describes a state that is neither a superpower nor a great power, but with considerable affluence and prestige?

What term refers to an archetype created through the configuration of three national attributes: size, economic system, and political system?

What is the concept or image of a country that is shared among the country's elite and public and guides its foreign and domestic policies?

What term describes the set of decisions, commitments, rules, and actions about a state and its appropriate place and behaviors in global affairs?

What policy describes a country's stance of not taking sides in international disputes or forming military alliances?

What view proposes that our understanding of world politics is a social creation, such as the belief that the international system is anarchic?

What term describes a state that uses military and economic power to pursue its foreign policy objectives, guided primarily by domestic politics?

What is the ultimate decision-making and decision-enforcing authority within a defined territory, where only states are sovereign?

What term describes the dominant story about a country shared and supported by the dominant nation and perpetuated through various institutions?

What is the story of a subnational group and its struggle against the dominant group?

What term describes when members of a group, nation, or state share the belief that the outside world holds hostile intentions toward them?

What cognitive error involves assuming one's own group is good by nature, while the opponent is inherently bad?

What is the term for mandatory military service?

What defense posture involves maintaining weapons only for national territorial defense, causing no fear in others about the state's intentions?

What are the limitations of political integration in relation to foreign and unit considerations?

What theory suggests that democracies are less likely to go to war with other democracies?

What is the term for an arrangement in a parliamentary system where two or more political parties govern together?

What is the coalition of countries with nuclear capabilities that seeks to limit nuclear proliferation?

What concept describes national leaders dividing their attention between domestic and international environments?

What form of government involves a leader wielding unlimited power?

What is the theory and practice of protecting a country's domestic industries from foreign competition?

What term refers to the removal or reduction of restrictions on the free exchange of goods and services between countries?

What political philosophy emphasizes the struggle of ordinary people against the privileged elite?

What term describes the recognition or acceptance by citizens and/or international actors that a government has the right to exercise power?

What term describes an aggressive policy typically associated with the use of force or violation of international norms?

What is the process in which constitutional limits are placed on the exercise of power by central authorities, with free and openly contested elections?

What term describes putting off further steps toward democracy by holding together a nationalist coalition through a protracted external problem?

What theory suggests that leaders commit military forces abroad to distract from domestic political problems?

What term describes political parties or organized groups that are opposed to the regime in power?

What strategy involves leaders attempting to deflect attention from and protect their foreign policy?

What strategy involves leaders bargaining with a vocal opposition to avoid controversy by accommodating some of its demands?

What occurs when an opponent has demonstrated sufficient power to cause political harm, leading the regime to invite the opponent into the government?

What strategy involves using nationalist calls to rally supporters behind a risky or aggressive foreign policy?

What term describes attributing blame for negative conditions on others, particularly foreigners, to mobilize supporters?

What term describes an uprising or public resistance, particularly associated with Palestinian uprisings in Israeli-occupied territories?

What is the foreign policy aimed at encouraging other countries to adopt democratic institutions of governance?

What term describes a norm- and rule-based legal system governing decision making and peaceful conflict resolution within a society?

What term describes the period in which democratic institutions and values are adopted and consolidated within a country?

What is the term for a military group that controls a country by force?

What term describes the general views of the majority of individuals about some idea, person, policy, or action?

What term describes the coordinated use of national capabilities to affect perceptions and behaviors in other countries?

What term describes the electoral losses that policymakers suffer in response to unpopular decisions or policies?

What term describes military involvement in a state's internal affairs to stop mass killings or prevent a humanitarian disaster?

What foreign policy orientation favors cooperation and mutual empowerment over the narrow pursuit of national interests?

What term describes public interest in leaders, issues, and decision making?

What is a neutral multinational armed force deployed to enforce a cease-fire and maintain a demilitarized zone?

What is a multinational military force tasked with creating secure conditions in a conflict zone using all necessary means?

What term describes the act of explaining a problem to promote a certain solution, often repeated to shut out competing frames?

What effect describes media broadcasts inciting the public to demand foreign policy action by the government?

What term describes the internationalization of culture and economics, with increased interdependence between global actors?

What term describes a state with the ability to shape and maintain the international system through significant power?

What term refers to the act, process, or power of governing?

What is the global vision and set of operating principles that frame the foreign policy of a great power?

What term describes the countries that control most of the world's wealth and power, often controlling international institutions?

What term describes countries that were once colonies and have political and economic development issues?

What is the history of policy development in relation to military and government?

What term refers to the preponderance of power in the international system, where the state with preponderant power has primacy?

What term describes the distribution of power among the great power states in the international system?

What term describes the effort by a state or group of states to build a counterweight against another state's power?

What term describes joining a powerful state to appease it and lessen the threat it poses?

What term describes an international system where power is evenly distributed between two significant powers or blocs?

What term refers to the totality of international actors, resources, and rules governing relations among actors?

What term describes a global economic system based on free trade of goods and services across national boundaries?

What term describes when a country engages in an arms buildup in response to a threatening international opponent?

What grand theory proposes that international cooperation occurs because states understand the long-term benefits of collective action?

What grand theory proposes that power is the most important factor in international relations, dictating state behavior?

What variant of neorealism proposes that states must always seek opportunities to gain power and remain vigilant about threats?

What movement started by Global South countries during the Cold War involves states not aligned with major power blocs?

What is the ultimate decision-making and decision-enforcing authority within a defined territory, where only states are sovereign?

What term describes a body that has power or influence transcending national organizations or bodies?

What term describes strategic balancing through formal and informal groupings of states not for military hard balancing?

What term describes an effort to build a political counterweight against a dominant state without challenging its dominance?

What term describes states that are not in the core but also not the poorest, with mid-low wealth and influence?

What term describes the general condition of the international system where no ultimate authority exists to govern relations?

What term describes opposition to the growing internationalization of culture and economics, often associated with populism?

What term describes a state that seeks to overthrow an existing international order to create one that serves its interests?

What variant of neorealism proposes that states are satisfied with the status quo and respond only to materialized threats?

What term describes the most wealthy, advanced, and influential states in the international capitalist system?

What term describes the notion that the international community should protect people from mass atrocity crimes when a state cannot?

What term describes the international system created by the hegemon to suit its global goals and objectives?

What term describes the preponderant power in the international system, creating and maintaining an international order?

What term describes an effort to build a counterweight against a dominant state through increased military spending and alliances?

What term describes the political and economic theories of Karl Marx, proposing that economic organization shapes political and social organization?

What term describes participation in institutionalized arrangements of more than three states on specific issue areas?

What term describes an international system where power is distributed among four or five major powers?

What is the definition of government in relation to state and policy?

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