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