TY - JOUR
T1 - Bureaucratic Politics, Role Conflict, and the Internal Dynamics of US Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan
AU - Keane, Conor
AU - Wood, Steve
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Among the many challenges confronting the United States and its allies in Afghanistan were cohesion and communication problems in state-building programs. Merging role theory and bureaucratic politics approaches, this article argues that US Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs), the composite groups charged with implementing these programs, suffered from incompatibilities between sectors of government, among which the military was dominant. US PRTs were affected by role conflict, resulting from varying and often competing organizational cultures with divergent role conceptions.
AB - Among the many challenges confronting the United States and its allies in Afghanistan were cohesion and communication problems in state-building programs. Merging role theory and bureaucratic politics approaches, this article argues that US Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs), the composite groups charged with implementing these programs, suffered from incompatibilities between sectors of government, among which the military was dominant. US PRTs were affected by role conflict, resulting from varying and often competing organizational cultures with divergent role conceptions.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84948845715&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0095327X15572113
DO - 10.1177/0095327X15572113
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84948845715
SN - 0095-327X
VL - 42
SP - 99
EP - 118
JO - Armed Forces and Society
JF - Armed Forces and Society
IS - 1
ER -