Explaining Political Judgement [Paperback]

A fresh theory of political judgement, using analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis to provide new implications for political science.This book presents a fresh, rigorous explanatory theory of judgment, its varieties and its consequences, drawing upon Durkheim and Douglas. The author develops his theory through a detailed study of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and concludes by setting out wider implications for political science.This book presents a fresh, rigorous explanatory theory of judgment, its varieties and its consequences, drawing upon Durkheim and Douglas. The author develops his theory through a detailed study of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and concludes by setting out wider implications for political science.What is political judgement? Why do politicians exhibit such contrasting thought styles in making decisions, even when they agree ideologically? What happens when governments with contrasting thought styles have to deal with each other? In this book Perri 6 presents a fresh, rigorous explanatory theory of judgment, its varieties and its consequences, drawing upon Durkheim and Douglas. He argues that policy makers will understand  and misunderstand  their problems and choices in ways that reproduce their own social organisation. This theory is developed by using the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 as an extended case study, examining the decision-making of the Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev regimes. Explaining political judgment is the first comprehensive study to show what a neo-Durkheimian institutional approach can offer to political science and to the social sciences generally.1. On political judgement; 2. The need for richer explanation; 3. A Durkheimian theoretical framework; 4. October 1962, before and after; 5. The Khrushchev r?gime; 6. The Kennedy administration; 7. The Castro revolutionary r?gime; 8. Implications; 9. Coda.Drawing upon neo-Durkheimian social anthropology, Perri 6 demonstrates the profound relevance of social and institutionall“µ