Tocqueville's Caveat
Centralized Executive Foreign Policy & American Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7975402 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Larry N George (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 419-441 |
| Publication date | 1990-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3234757 |
| OpenAlex | W2312465167 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The 1987 Iran-Contra hearings revived longstanding tensions in American politics between the requirements of democracy and the demands of foreign policy making. This article assesses the arguments made in defense of centralized decision making in U.S. foreign affairs and finds them generally at odds with the tenets of democratic political theory. The author argues that these contradictions suggest the need for significant reform in the institutional arrangement of the nation's foreign policy-making apparatus
Democracy · Executive branch · Foreign policy · Foreign policy analysis · International relations · Law and economics · Odds · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Political Theory and Influence · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 1991 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |