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- Title
ROLES, POLITICS, AND THE SURVIVAL OF THE V-22 OSPREY.
- Authors
Jones, Christopher M.
- Abstract
This article draws upon interviews, U.S. Congressional testimony, private documents and other available material, to carefully reconstruct the decision to develop the V-22 Osprey, a tilt-rotor aircraft, from 1989 through 1992 by the U.S. government. In doing so it seeks to provide a clear basis for understanding the actors and interests that have protected the program in the past and will work to ensure its survival in 2001. Further, it employs the bureaucratic politics literature to argue that organizational mission provides a compelling explanation of the participants' policy preferences and the politics that shaped a significant national security decision with long term fiscal and military implications. Last, the case suggests that the key assumptions of the bureaucratic politics literature, which have long been used to explain the behavior of the executive branch, can be applied to legislative and societal actors. The finding lends support to scholars who have advocated the need to broaden and refine the bureaucratic politics frameworks developed thirty years ago.
- Subjects
UNITED States; V-22 Osprey (Transport plane); UNITED States politics &; government; BUREAUCRACY; NATIONAL security; POLITICAL sociology
- Publication
Journal of Political & Military Sociology, 2001, Vol 29, Issue 1, p46
- ISSN
0047-2697
- Publication type
Article