Investigating the President (eBook)

Congressional Checks on Presidential Power

Douglas L. Kriner, Eric Schickler (Autoren)

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2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8363-9 (ISBN)

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Douglas L. Kriner is associate professor of political science at Boston University. Eric Schickler is the Jeffrey and Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Although congressional investigations have provided some of the most dramatic moments in American political history, they have often been dismissed as mere political theater. But these investigations are far more than grandstanding. Investigating the President shows that congressional investigations are a powerful tool for members of Congress to counter presidential aggrandizement. By shining a light on alleged executive wrongdoing, investigations can exert significant pressure on the president and materially affect policy outcomes.Douglas Kriner and Eric Schickler construct the most comprehensive overview of congressional investigative oversight to date, analyzing nearly thirteen thousand days of hearings, spanning more than a century, from 1898 through 2014. The authors examine the forces driving investigative power over time and across chambers, identify how hearings might influence the president's strategic calculations through the erosion of the president's public approval rating, and uncover the pathways through which investigations have shaped public policy. Put simply, by bringing significant political pressure to bear on the president, investigations often afford Congress a blunt, but effective check on presidential power-without the need to worry about veto threats or other hurdles such as Senate filibusters.In an era of intense partisan polarization and institutional dysfunction, Investigating the President delves into the dynamics of congressional investigations and how Congress leverages this tool to counterbalance presidential power.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.8.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 1 halftone. 18 line illus. 37 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Amendment • American political history • American Politics • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 • americans • Balance of Power • barack obama • Benghazi • Bill Clinton • boston university • Brookings Institution • Calculation • Cambridge University Press • Case study • chairman • church committee • Committee • Congress • congressional action • congressional investigations • congressional oversight • Congressional Quarterly • cover-up • Criticism • Democracy • divided government • domestic policy • estimation • Ethics in Government Act • Executive branch • Executive (government) • executive misconduct • Executive Order • executive wrongdoing • foreign policy • gavel • General Election • George W. Bush • Government • Headline • Hillary Clinton • House Un-American Activities Committee • Impeachment • Imperial Presidency • incumbent • Internal Revenue Service • investigative power • investigative powers • Legislation • Legislator • Legislature • Lyndon B. Johnson • majority • Majority Leader • McCarthyism • Member of Congress • Midterm election • Military policy • misconduct • national security • Obama administration • Opinion Poll • Opposition Party • Oxford University Press • Party leader • Policy • policy change • political agenda • political capital • Political History • Political Party • political pressure • Political Science • political spectrum • Politician • Politics • Precedent • Presidency of Barack Obama • Presidency of George W. Bush • presidential actions • presidential aggrandizement • presidential behavior • Presidential Power • presidentialУongressional relations • Princeton University Press • Probability • Project • ProQuest • Public Opinion • Public Policy • Regime • Republican Party (United States) • Republicans • result • Richard Nixon • select committee • Senate hold • separation of power • Solyndra • special prosecutor • statistical significance • Statute • subpoena • Superfund • Teapot Dome scandal • The New York Times • Time Series • transaction cost • Truman Committee • two-party system • Unemployment • United States congressional committee • United States Department of State • U.S. Congress • U.S. Senate • Veto • Voting • war • war effort • Watergate scandal • Woodrow Wilson • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8363-6 / 1400883636
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8363-9 / 9781400883639