While Dangers Gather : : Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers /

While Dangers Gather : : Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers / / William G. Howell, Jon Pevehouse.

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Nearly five hundred times in the past century, American presidents have deployed the nation's military abroad, on missions ranging from embassy evacuations to full-scale wars. The question of whether Congress has effectively limited the president's power to do so has generally met with a r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Howell, William G.,
Pevehouse, Jon,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2007
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 1 halftone. 8 line illus. 30 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One. Background and Theory
  • Chapter 1. Possibilities of Congressional Influence
  • Chapter 2. Conditions that Abet Congressional Influence
  • Part Two. Testing Claims about Congressional Influence
  • Chapter 3. Trends in Military Deployments
  • Chapter 4. Responding to "Opportunities" to Use Military Force (with Douglas L. Kriner)
  • Chapter 5. Studies in Domestic Politics and the Use of Force
  • Part Three. One Causal Pathway
  • Chapter 6. Congress and the Media (with Douglas L. Kriner)
  • Chapter 7. The Media and Public Opinion
  • Chapter 8. Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Tables Relating to Chapter 3
  • Appendix B. Text and Tables Relating to Chapter 4
  • Appendix C. Table Relating to Chapter 6
  • Appendix D. Table Relating to Chapter 7
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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