Political Self-Deception Galeotti Anna ElisabettaPevná vazba
Political Self-Deception Galeotti Anna ElisabettaPevná vazba Self-deception, that is the distortion of reality against the available evidence and according to one's wishes, represents a distinctive…
Specifikacia Political Self-Deception Galeotti Anna ElisabettaPevná vazba
Political Self-Deception Galeotti Anna ElisabettaPevná vazba
Self-deception, that is the distortion of reality against the available evidence and according to one's wishes, represents a distinctive component in the wide realm of political deception. In this book Anna Elisabetta Galeotti shows how self-deception can explain political occurrences where public deception intertwines with political failure - from bad decisions based on false beliefs, through the self-serving nature of those beliefs, to the deception of the public as a by-product of a leader's self-deception. It has received relatively little attention but is well worth examining for its explanatory and normative dimensions.
Kennedy and the Cuba Crisis, Lyndon B. Her discussion uses close analysis of three well-known case studies: John F. Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and George W.
Bush and the weapons of mass destruction. Her book will appeal to a range of readers in