The Wartime President: Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat (Chicago Series on International and Domestic Institutions)

William G. Howell; Saul P. Jackman; Jon C. Rogowski

ISBN 10: 022604825X / ISBN 13: 9780226048253

Edité par University of Chicago Press, 2013

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Cloth hardcover, xxi + 344 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show minor handling wear, ISBN sticker on the back. No dust jacket. -- Contents: Pt. I Background: 1. War and the American Presidency [A Notion Expressed; A Notion Evaluated; Sifting Through the Claims; Quantitative Studies on War and Presidential Power; Moving Forward]; Pt. II Theorizing about Interbranch Bargaining During War: 2. Policy Priority Model [Theoretical Building Blocks: Policies, Outcomes, and Interbranch Bargaining; The Model; Nontechnical Summary; Conclusion] 3. Model's Predictions about Modern U.S. Wars [Defining War; Which Equilibrium Are We Playing?; Measuring the Prioritization of National Outcomes; Characterizing the Wars; Key Expectations; Competing Explanations; A Closing Note on Theory Testing]; Pt. III Empirical Investigations: 4. Spending in War and in Peace [Data; Primary Analyses; Strategic Proposal Making; Distinguishing Between Two Theoretically Informed Causal Mechanisms; A Comment on Endogenous War Making; Conclusion] 5. Voting in War and in Peace [Data and Methods; Post-9/11 Wars and the 107th Congress; Earlier Wars; World War I and the Relevance of Stateside Attacks; War and Other Crises; Conclusion] 6. Case Studies I: Illustrations [First Total War; Pearl Harbor and National Labor Policy; Roosevelt and All the Resplendence of a Wartime Presidency; Immigration Provisions of the USA Patriot Act; Final Remarks] 7. Case Studies II: Challenges [Federal Government Enters the Public Education Business; Great Society and the 1965 Decision to Send Ground Troops into Vietnam; Bush's Wartime Effort to Reform Social Security; Final Remarks]; Pt. IV Conclusion: 8. Summaries, Speculations, and Extensions [Holes and Extensions; Future of War; A Future for the Policy Priority Model]; Pt. V Appendixes: A. Technical Details, Chapter - B. Alternative Bridging Criteria, Chapter 5 - C. Summary Tables, Chapter 5 - D. Robustness Checks, Chapter 5 [Alternative Estimation Procedures; Alternative Interest Group Bridges; Changes in the Agenda; Subsets of Roll Call Votes; Defining the Beginning of War; Rising Conservatism and War; Placebo Tests]; Bibliography; Index -- "It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority," wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. The balance of power between Congress and the president has been a powerful thread throughout American political thought since the time of the Founding Fathers. And yet, for all that has been written on the topic, we still lack a solid empirical or theoretical justification for Hamilton's proposition. For the first time, William G. Howell, Saul P. Jackman, and Jon C. Rogowski systematically analyze the question. Congress, they show, is more likely to defer to the president's policy preferences when political debates center on national rather than local considerations. Thus, World War II and the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq significantly augmented presidential power, allowing the president to enact foreign and domestic policies that would have been unattainable in times of peace. But, contrary to popular belief, there are also times when war has little effect on a president's influence in Congress. The Vietnam and Gulf Wars, for instance, did not nationalize our politics nearly so much, and presidential influence expanded only moderately. Built on groundbreaking research, The Wartime President offers one of the most significant works ever written on the wartime powers presidents wield at home.

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• Titre: The Wartime President: Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat (Chicago Series on International and Domestic Institutions)
• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 022604825X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226048253
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket

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"It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority," wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. The balance of power between Congress and the president has been a powerful thread throughout American political thought since the time of the Founding Fathers. And yet, for all that has been written on the topic, we still lack a solid empirical or theoretical justification for Hamilton's proposition. For the first time, William G. Howell, Saul P. Jackman, and Jon C. Rogowski systematically analyze the question, Congress, they show, is more likely to defer to the president's policy preferences when political debates center on national rather than local considerations. Thus, World War II and the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq significantly augmented presidential power, allowing the president to enact foreign and domestic policies that would have been unattainable in times of peace. But, contrary to popular belief, there are also times when war has little effect on a president's influence in Congress. The Vietnam and Gulf Wars, for instance, did not nationalize our politics nearly so much, and presidential influence expanded only moderately. Built on groundbreaking research, The Wartime President offers one of the most significant works ever written on the wartime powers presidents wield at home.

À propos de l'auteur

William G. Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies and professor of political science in the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including, most recently, Thinking about the Presidency: The Primacy of Power and While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers. Saul P. Jackman is a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Jon C. Rogowski is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis.