Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 288 p.
This book examines how beliefs shape leaders’ perceptions of reality and lead to cognitive and motivated biases that distort, block, and recast incoming information from the environment. Using content analysis and formal modeling methods associated with quantitative operational code analysis, contributors analyze how beliefs affect policies related to inteational security and inteational political economy.
Belief Systems as Causal Mechanisms in World Politics: An Overview of Operational Code Analysis.
Stephen G. Walker and Mark Schafer
Methods: Content Analysis and Formal Models
Operational Code Analysis at a Distance: The Verbs in Context System of Content Analysis. Mark Schafer and Stephen G. Walker
A World of Beliefs: Modeling Interactions Among Agents with Different Operational Codes. B. Gregory Marfleet and Stephen G. Walker
Applications: The Domain of Leader–Advisor Relations
The Eyes of Kesteven: How the Worldviews of Margaret Thatcher and Her Cabinet Influenced British Foreign Policy. Scott Crichlow
George W. Bush and the Vulcans: Leader–Advisor Relations and America’s Response to the 9/11 Attacks. Sam Robison
Applications: The Domain of Inteational Security
Reagan and Gorbachev: Altercasting at the End of the Cold War. Akan Malici
Crisis Deferred: An Operational Code Analysis of Chinese Leaders Across the Strait. Huiyun Feng
Links Among Beliefs and Personality Traits: The Distinctive Language of Terrorists. Elena Lazarevska, Jayne M. Sholl, and Michael D. Young
Applications: The Domain of Inteational Political Economy
Economic Sanctions and Operational Code Analysis: Beliefs and the Use of Economic Coercion.
A. Cooper Drury
Economic Liberalism and the Operational Code Beliefs of U.S. Presidents: The Initiation of NAFTA Disputes, 1989–2002. Matthew Stevenson
Bankers and Beliefs: The Political Psychology of the Asian Financial Crisis. Cameron G. Thies
Structural Inteational Relations Theories and the Future of Operational Code Analysis. Stephen G. Walker and Mark Schafer
This book examines how beliefs shape leaders’ perceptions of reality and lead to cognitive and motivated biases that distort, block, and recast incoming information from the environment. Using content analysis and formal modeling methods associated with quantitative operational code analysis, contributors analyze how beliefs affect policies related to inteational security and inteational political economy.
Belief Systems as Causal Mechanisms in World Politics: An Overview of Operational Code Analysis.
Stephen G. Walker and Mark Schafer
Methods: Content Analysis and Formal Models
Operational Code Analysis at a Distance: The Verbs in Context System of Content Analysis. Mark Schafer and Stephen G. Walker
A World of Beliefs: Modeling Interactions Among Agents with Different Operational Codes. B. Gregory Marfleet and Stephen G. Walker
Applications: The Domain of Leader–Advisor Relations
The Eyes of Kesteven: How the Worldviews of Margaret Thatcher and Her Cabinet Influenced British Foreign Policy. Scott Crichlow
George W. Bush and the Vulcans: Leader–Advisor Relations and America’s Response to the 9/11 Attacks. Sam Robison
Applications: The Domain of Inteational Security
Reagan and Gorbachev: Altercasting at the End of the Cold War. Akan Malici
Crisis Deferred: An Operational Code Analysis of Chinese Leaders Across the Strait. Huiyun Feng
Links Among Beliefs and Personality Traits: The Distinctive Language of Terrorists. Elena Lazarevska, Jayne M. Sholl, and Michael D. Young
Applications: The Domain of Inteational Political Economy
Economic Sanctions and Operational Code Analysis: Beliefs and the Use of Economic Coercion.
A. Cooper Drury
Economic Liberalism and the Operational Code Beliefs of U.S. Presidents: The Initiation of NAFTA Disputes, 1989–2002. Matthew Stevenson
Bankers and Beliefs: The Political Psychology of the Asian Financial Crisis. Cameron G. Thies
Structural Inteational Relations Theories and the Future of Operational Code Analysis. Stephen G. Walker and Mark Schafer