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Presidential attentiveness to international crises.
- Source :
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Presidential Studies Quarterly . Sep2024, Vol. 54 Issue 3, p366-392. 27p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Why, and under what conditions, do international crises make the president's national security agenda? I argue that international crises are opportunities for presidents to seek domestic political gains, but that presidents are likely to weigh anticipated political benefits against anticipated risk of political opposition. I analyze presidential National Security Council (NSC) meeting agendas from 1947 to 1993 to find that the War Powers Resolution (WPR) of 1973 reduced the likelihood of presidential crisis attentiveness, that low approval ratings are associated with increased crisis attentiveness, and that post‐WPR presidents under unified government are likely to be more crisis attentive. This article provides fresh analysis of the WPR by connecting presidential national security behavior with American domestic politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PUBLIC opinion
*POLITICAL science
*POLITICAL opposition
*NATIONAL security
*WAR
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03604918
- Volume :
- 54
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 178994873
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/psq.12875