Carter / Scott Choosing to Lead

Understanding Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurs
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9090-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

Assesses Congress's role in U.S. foreign policy making, focusing on congressional foreign policy "entrepreneurs" who try to either change or create new foreign policies without specific prompting from the executive branch.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carter, Ralph G.

Scott, James M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

1. Beyond the White House: Bringing Congress into the Foreign Policy Picture 1

2. From Problem to Policy: A Theory of Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurship 24

3. Surveying the Landscape: Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurs since World War II 52

4. The Rising Tide: Entrepreneurship in the Cold War Consensus Period, 1946–1967 77

5. Players in the Game: Entrepreneurship in the Cold War Dissensus Period, 1968–1989 115

6. Contending with the Thaw: Entrepreneurship in the Post-Cold War Period, 1990–2000 154

7. After 9/11: Entrepreneurs into the 21st Century 205

8. Part of the Landscape: Conclusions on the Entrepreneur Effect 221

Notes 247

Bibliography 255

Index 287

Über Autor(innen)

Ralph G. Carter is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Texas Christian University. He is a co-author of Making American Foreign Policy and the editor of Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade.James M. Scott is Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of Deciding to Intervene: The Reagan Doctrine and American Foreign Policy, also published by Duke University Press; co-author of The Politics of United States Foreign Policy and American Foreign Policy: Pattern and Process; and editor of After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post–Cold War World, also published by Duke University Press.