Congress and War Powers
Symbolism and Nondecisions in the Struggle for Influence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6182348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael T Hayes (Colgate University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 185-207 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Congress & the Presidency (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-3469 • E-ISSN: 1944-1053 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07343469.2018.1458758 |
| OpenAlex | W2803015210 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article focuses on war powers issues during the Clinton presidency to test the theory of nondecision-making as developed by Bachrach and Baratz (1970) and Lukes (1974). The first section clarifies key theoretical concepts (mobilization of bias and barrier I and barrier II nondecisions) and argues that war powers issues constitute "key issues" in Bachrach and Baratz's terms, thus permitting the formulation of falsifiable nondecision hypotheses. The second section presents four in-depth case studies of troop deployment conflicts from the Clinton administration: Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. The third section analyzes the evidence from the four Clinton era cases, revealing a preponderance of nondecisions and essentially symbolic nonbinding resolutions (Edelman 1967; Hinckley 1994). The third section also identifies four mechanisms for deflecting challenges to the prevailing distribution of power (Bachrach and Baratz 1970, 44–48) and shows how all four were employed to deflect challenges to presidential primacy in the various Clinton cases. Following Oppenheimer (1974), the concluding section will offer an expanded vocabulary for classifying various forms of nondecision-making
Administration (probate law · Cold war · Computer security · Epistemology · Falsifiability · Key (lock · Law and economics · Physics · Political economy · Political science · Power (physics · Presidency · Presidential system · Section (typography · Sociology · Software deployment · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance
Power and Powerlessness
The symbolic uses of politics
Less Than Meets the Eye
Power
Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy
Power and poverty
The Clinton Wars
After the Rubicon
Power and Its Two Faces Revisited
The President’s Constitutional Authority to Use Limited Military Force
Manufacturing consent
Presidents, Congress, and the Use of Force
Nondecisions and Power
Two Faces of Power
Nondecisions and the Study of Local Politics
Decisions and Nondecisions
On the Neo-Elitist Critique of Community Power
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |