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DIVIDED GOVERNMENT AND CONGRESSIONAL FOREIGN POLICY: A CASE STUDY OF THE POST-WORLD WAR II ERA IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
- Date Issued:
- 2011
- Abstract/Description:
- The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of American federal government, during periods within which these two branches are led by different political parties, to discover whether the legislative branch attempts to independently legislate and enact foreign policy by using "the power of the purse" to either appropriate in support of or refuse to appropriate in opposition to military engagement abroad. The methodology for this research includes the analysis and comparison of certain variables, including public opinion, budgetary constraints, and the relative majority of the party that holds power in one or both chambers, and the ways these variables may impact the behavior of the legislative branch in this regard. It also includes the analysis of appropriations requests made by the legislative branch for funding military engagement in rejection of requests from the executive branch for all military engagements that occurred during periods of divided government from 1946 through 2009.
Title: | DIVIDED GOVERNMENT AND CONGRESSIONAL FOREIGN POLICY: A CASE STUDY OF THE POST-WORLD WAR II ERA IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. |
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Name(s): |
Feinman, David, Author Houghton, David, Committee Chair University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Date Issued: | 2011 | |
Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
Language(s): | English | |
Abstract/Description: | The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of American federal government, during periods within which these two branches are led by different political parties, to discover whether the legislative branch attempts to independently legislate and enact foreign policy by using "the power of the purse" to either appropriate in support of or refuse to appropriate in opposition to military engagement abroad. The methodology for this research includes the analysis and comparison of certain variables, including public opinion, budgetary constraints, and the relative majority of the party that holds power in one or both chambers, and the ways these variables may impact the behavior of the legislative branch in this regard. It also includes the analysis of appropriations requests made by the legislative branch for funding military engagement in rejection of requests from the executive branch for all military engagements that occurred during periods of divided government from 1946 through 2009. | |
Identifier: | CFE0003657 (IID), ucf:48840 (fedora) | |
Note(s): |
2011-05-01 M.A. Sciences, Department of Political Science Masters This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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Subject(s): |
American America United States government Congress House Representatives Senate foreign policy divided executive legislative Democrat Republican legislate appropriation appropriate military war public opinion budget budgetary majority President unemployment inflation debt power precedent separation powers Constitution Iraq Afghanistan Vietnam Kosovo Serbia NATO Libya Obama Bush Clinton Reagan Nixon Ford Eisenhower |
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Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003657 | |
Restrictions on Access: | public | |
Host Institution: | UCF |