LEADER 04341nam 2200697 450 001 9910464226203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-691-15162-8 010 $a1-4008-6646-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400866465 035 $a(CKB)2670000000597644 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001439025 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12606722 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001439025 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11379185 035 $a(PQKB)11215979 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1866592 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001752302 035 $a(OCoLC)966763241 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse54678 035 $a(DE-B1597)459960 035 $a(OCoLC)984652217 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400866465 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1866592 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11022834 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL732256 035 $a(OCoLC)903900764 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000597644 100 $a20150304h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWatchdogs on the hill $ethe decline of congressional oversight of U.S. foreign relations /$fLinda L. Fowler 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, New Jersey ;$aOxford, [England] :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (279 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-336-00974-8 311 $a0-691-15161-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tTables -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPART I. Information, Regular Order, and Democratic Accountability in International Affairs -- $tPART II. Oversight Hearings and Regular Order in U.S. Foreign Relations -- $tPART III. Reclaiming Congressional War Powers -- $tAPPENDIX A. Coding Congressional Committee Hearings -- $tAPPENDIX B. Description of Dependent and Independent Variables -- $tAPPENDIX C. Methodological Appendix to Chapter 3 -- $tAPPENDIX D. Methodological Appendix to Chapter 4 -- $tAPPENDIX E. Methodological Appendix to Chapter 5 -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aAn essential responsibility of the U.S. Congress is holding the president accountable for the conduct of foreign policy. In this in-depth look at formal oversight hearings by the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, Linda Fowler evaluates how the legislature's most visible and important watchdogs performed from the mid-twentieth century to the present. She finds a noticeable reduction in public and secret hearings since the mid-1990s and establishes that American foreign policy frequently violated basic conditions for democratic accountability. Committee scrutiny of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, she notes, fell below levels of oversight in prior major conflicts.Fowler attributes the drop in watchdog activity to growing disinterest among senators in committee work, biases among members who join the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, and motives that shield presidents, particularly Republicans, from public inquiry. Her detailed case studies of the Truman Doctrine, Vietnam War, Panama Canal Treaty, humanitarian mission in Somalia, and Iraq War illustrate the importance of oversight in generating the information citizens need to judge the president's national security policies. She argues for a reassessment of congressional war powers and proposes reforms to encourage Senate watchdogs to improve public deliberation about decisions of war and peace.Watchdogs on the Hill investigates America's national security oversight and its critical place in the review of congressional and presidential powers in foreign policy. 606 $aLegislative oversight$zUnited States 606 $aInternational relations 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLegislative oversight 615 0$aInternational relations. 676 $a328.73/0746 700 $aFowler$b Linda L.$f1945-$0861556 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464226203321 996 $aWatchdogs on the hill$92461170 997 $aUNINA