1st Edition
Fiascos in Public Policy and Foreign Policy
1. Studying fiascos: bringing public and foreign policy together
Kai Oppermann and Alexander Spencer
2. Revisiting the study of policy failures
Mark Bovens and Paul ‘t Hart
3. A public policy approach to understanding the nature and causes of foreign policy failure
Allan McConnell
4. Telling stories of failure: narrative constructions of foreign policy fiascos
Kai Oppermann and Alexander Spencer
5. ‘Fiasco prime ministers’: leaders’ beliefs and personality traits as possible causes for policy fiascos
Klaus Brummer
6. The fiasco of the 2013 Syria votes: decline and denial in British foreign policy
Jamie Gaskarth
7. Over- and under-reaction to transboundary threats: two sides of a misprinted coin?
Christoph O. Meyer
8. Resilient blunderers: credit rating fiascos and rating agencies’ institutionalized status as private authorities
Andreas Kruck
9. Dissonance and decision-making mistakes in the age of risk
Ryan Beasley
Biography
Kai Oppermann is Reader in Politics at the University of Sussex, UK. His research interests relate to the domestic sources of foreign policy and European integration as well as British and German foreign and European policy.
Alexander Spencer is Associate Professor of Global Governance at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. His research focuses on constructivist approaches to global governance and European foreign and security policy.
