1st Edition
The Mx Decision A New Direction In U.s. Weapons Procurement Policy?
289 Pages
by
Routledge
289 Pages
by
Routledge
289 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focusing especially on the history of the MX program, this book examines the process of U.S. weapons procurement decision making. The authors demonstrate that strategic and general political factors (as opposed to bureaucratic concerns) play a far more decisive role in the decision-making process than is indicated in previous studies of weapons procurement. They also point to the significant... Read more
Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Bureaucratic Politics Paradigm for Procurement Decision Making -- Bureaucratic Politics and Procurement Decisions -- Issues and Actors -- A Peek through the Window of Vulnerability: Shall We have a New ICBM? -- A Peek through the Window of Vulnerability: What Shall Be the Basing Mode? -- Foreign Policy and the MX Decision -- Mxing it up in the Great Basin -- MX Decision Making -- From the Origins of MX to Two Decisions for Acquisition -- Congress and MX -- The Public Arena and MX -- The Reagan Basing-Mode-of-the-Month Club -- Conclusions -- Epilogue
Biography
Lauren H. Holland is assistant professor of political science at the University of Utah. Robert A. Hoover is associate professor and chair of the department of political science at Utah State University.
