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Watchdogs on the hill : the decline of congressional oversight of U.S. foreign relations / / Linda L. Fowler



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Autore: Fowler Linda L. <1945-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Watchdogs on the hill : the decline of congressional oversight of U.S. foreign relations / / Linda L. Fowler Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Princeton University Press, , 2015
©2015
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 328.73/0746
Soggetto topico: Legislative oversight - United States
International relations
Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations
United States Politics and government
Soggetto non controllato: Abu Ghraib Prison
Constitution
Defense Department
Department of Defense
Iraq War
Panama Canal
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate committee
Senate watchdogs
Senate
State Department
Truman Doctrine
U.S. Congress
U.S. Constitution
U.S. foreign policy
U.S. foreign relations
Vietnam War
congressional war powers
democratic accountability
divided government
executive branch
fire alarms
foreign affairs
foreign policy
foreign relations
institutional changes
international affairs
military casualties
national security oversight
national security
police patrols
presidency
public hearings
public opinion
public understanding
reform proposals
rule of law
scandals
secret hearings
war powers
wars
Classificazione: POL006000POL040010HIS036060POL011000
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. Information, Regular Order, and Democratic Accountability in International Affairs -- PART II. Oversight Hearings and Regular Order in U.S. Foreign Relations -- PART III. Reclaiming Congressional War Powers -- APPENDIX A. Coding Congressional Committee Hearings -- APPENDIX B. Description of Dependent and Independent Variables -- APPENDIX C. Methodological Appendix to Chapter 3 -- APPENDIX D. Methodological Appendix to Chapter 4 -- APPENDIX E. Methodological Appendix to Chapter 5 -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: An 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Watchdogs on the hill  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-691-15162-8
1-4008-6646-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788164403321
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