Date of Award

1-1-2011

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Public Administration and Policy

Content Description

1 online resource (iv, 261 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Mitch Abolafia

Committee Members

John Rohrbaugh, David McCaffrey

Keywords

Federal Open Market Committee, Influence Tactics, Policy-Making Groups, Strategic Interaction, Symbolic Interactionism, Influence (Psychology), Persuasion (Psychology), Social interaction, Intergroup relations, Policy sciences

Subject Categories

Public Administration

Abstract

The main objective of the dissertation was to understand how members of elite ongoing policy-making groups in organizations influence each other in the process of making policy. The research was conducted using the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the US Federal Reserve System as the case study; the verbatim transcripts of FOMC meetings as the data; and the open coding as the method.

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