Choosing to Lead: Understanding Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurs

Ralph G. Carter; James M. Scott

Published by Duke University Press 2009

Choosing to Lead

Understanding Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurs

Ralph G. Carter and James M. Scott

In the series e-Duke books scholarly collection

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390909

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“I now see the foreign policy-making process in a different light than I did before reading Choosing to Lead. Ralph G. Carter and James M. Scott show that Congress can and regularly does play an important role in foreign policy making. In the future, foreign-policy analysts will have to consider that role rather than assume that only the Oval Office matters.”—A. Cooper Drury, author of Economic Sanctions and Presidential Decisions: Models of Political Rationality

“Two scholars reveal here the fascinating stories of enterprising American lawmakers who’ve exerted extraordinary personal influence in the making of American foreign policy. Sometimes unnoted in contemporary writings and occasionally unappreciated, some were surprisingly successful and some stunningly selfless. Choosing to Lead is historically significant and interestingly written.”—Jim Wright, Former Speaker, U. S. House of Representatives

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Beyond the White House: Bringing Congress into the Foreign Policy Picture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. From Problem to Policy: A Theory of Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. Surveying the Landscape: Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurs since World War II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4. The Rising Tide: Entrepreneurship in the Cold War Consensus Period, 1946–1967 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
5. Players in the Game: Entrepreneurship in the Cold War Dissensus Period, 1968–1989 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
6. Contending with the Thaw: Entrepreneurship in the Post–Cold War Period, 1990–2000 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
7. After 9/11: Entrepreneurs into the Twenty-First Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
8. Part of the Landscape: Conclusions on the Entrepreneur Effect Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 308
Illustrations
- Other: 38 tables

eBook

Published: July 3, 2009
ISBN: 9780822390909