Beliefs and Leadership in World Politics: Methods and Applications of Operational Code Analysis - Hardcover

by M. Schafer (Editor), S. Walker (Editor)

Focusing on how policy makers make decisions in foreign policy, this book examines how beliefs are causal mechanisms which steer decisions, shape leaders and perceptions of reality, and lead to cognitive and motivated biases that distort, block and recast incoming information from the environment.

Author Biography

MARK SCHAFER is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University, USA.

STEPHEN G. WALKER is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Arizona State University, USA.