Decision-Making in U.S. National Security Councils: Evidence from the Ford and Nixon Administrations

• In Event: American National Security Decision-Making at the Agent Level

Brief Overview

I study how conformity and confirmation biases among advisors in the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) can affect decision-making. I use a novel dataset of NSC conversations during the Ford and Nixon administrations to provide empirical evidence.

Author

• Lula Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology