Session 6 (Thursday 10:00-11:30 am)

The “deep state” and Bureaucratic Politics

Required reading:

Rosati, Jerel, and James Scott. 2011. "Bureaucracy, Presidential Management, and the National

Security Council." In The Politics of United States Foreign Policy, 95-126. Cengage Learning.
Drezner, Daniel W. 2019. “Present at the Destruction: The Trump Administration and the Foreign

Policy Bureaucracy.” The Journal of Politics 81 (2): 723-730.

Further reading:
Allison, Graham. 2008. "The Cuban Missile Crisis." In Foreign Policy Theories, Actors, Cases, edited by
Steve Smith et al., 207-228. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mitchell, David. 2005. "Centralizing Advisory Systems: Presidential Influence and the U.S. Foreign
Policy Decision-Making Process." Foreign Policy Analysis no. 1 (2):181-206.
Allison, Graham. 1971. Essence of Decision. Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York:
HarperCollins.
Art, Robert. 1973. "Bureaucratic Politics and American Foreign Policy: A Critique." Policy Sciences
no. 4 (4):467–490.
Bendor, Jonathan, and Thomas H. Hammond. 1992. "Rethinking Allison’s Models." American
Political Science Review no. 86 (2):301–322.
Freedman, Lawrence. 1976. "Logic, Politics and Foreign Policy Processes: A Critique of the
Bureaucratic Politics Model." International Affairs no. 52 (3):434–449.
Halperin, Morton H., Priscilla A. Clapp, and Arnold Kanter. 2006. Bureaucratic politics and foreign
policy. 2 ed. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
Hook, Steven W. 2011. “The Foreign Policy Bureaucracy.” In U.S. Foreign Policy: The Paradox of
World Power, 171-209. 3 ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
Jones, Christopher M. 2010. "Bureaucratic Politics and Organizational Process Models." In The
International Studies Encyclopedia, edited by Robert A. Denemark, 151-168. Malden, MA: John Wiley
and Sons.
Kowert, Paul A. 2002. Groupthink or Deadlock: When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors? Albany:
State University of New York Press.
Pfiffner, James P. “The Contemporary Presidency: Organizing the Trump Presidency.” Presidential
Studies Quarterly 48 (1): 153-167.
Wittkopf, Eugene R., Christopher M. Jones, and Jr. Charles W. Kegley. 2008. "The Foreign Policy
Bureaucracy and Foreign Policy Making." In American Foreign Policy: Pattern and Process, 367-412.
Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.