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While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers.

Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 01-DEC-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers. By William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 333 pp.

Scholars agree that congressional checks on presidents' war power have eroded in the modern era to the point that decisions for war sit squarely with the executive. Does this mean that Congress remains irrelevant when presidents consider military action? In While Dangers Gather, William Howell and Jon Pevehouse convincingly argue that Congress matters. Their book is a welcome contribution to the scholarly literature on the domestic politics of war. Too often, foreign policy scholars are dismissive of congressional constraints, instead centering their focus on international factors and bureaucratic politics. Rarely are congressional variables included in models designed to explain when presidents...

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