Description: Watchdogs on the Hill : The Decline of Congressional Oversight of . Foreign Relations, Hardcover by Fowler, Linda L., ISBN 069115161X, ISBN-13 9780691151618, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "An essential responsibility of the . 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 attributes the drop in watchdog activity to growing disinterestamong 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 on the Hill investigates America's national security oversight and its critical place in the review of congressional and presidential powers in foreign policy"--
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Book Title: Watchdogs on the Hill : The Decline of Congressional Oversight of
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Watchdogs on the Hill : the Decline of Congressional Oversight of U. S. Foreign Relations
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: American Government / Legislative Branch, United States / 20th Century, International Relations / General, American Government / General, American Government / Executive Branch
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Author: Linda L. Fowler
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover