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List of Tables and Figures | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Background | |
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War and the American Presidency | |
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A Notion Expressed | |
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A Notion Evaluated | |
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Sifting Through the Claims | |
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Quantitative Studies on War and Presidential Power | |
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Moving Forward | |
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Theorizing About Interbranch Bargaining During War | |
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The Policy Priority Model | |
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Theoretical Building Blocks: Policies, Outcomes, and Interbranch Bargaining | |
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The Model | |
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Nontechnical Summary | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Model's Predictions about Modern U.S. Wars | |
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Defining War | |
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Which Equilibrium Are We Playing? | |
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Measuring the Prioritization of National Outcomes | |
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Characterizing the Wars | |
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Key Expectations | |
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Competing Explanations | |
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A Closing Note on Theory Testing | |
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Empirical Investigations | |
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Spending In War and In Peace | |
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Data | |
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Primary Analyses | |
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Strategic Proposal Making | |
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Distinguishing Between Two Theoretically Informed Causal Mechanisms | |
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A Comment On Endogenous War Making | |
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Conclusion | |
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Voting In War and In Peace | |
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Data and Methods | |
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Post-9/11 Wars and the 107th Congress | |
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Earlier Wars | |
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World War I and the Relevance of Stateside Attacks | |
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War and Other Crises | |
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Conclusion | |
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Case Studies I: Illustrations | |
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The First Total War | |
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Pearl Harbor and National Labor Policy | |
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Roosevelt and All the Resplendence of a Wartime Presidency | |
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The Immigration Provisions of the USA Patriot Act | |
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Final Remarks | |
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Case Studies II: Challenges | |
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The Federal Government Enters the Public Education Business | |
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The Great Society and the 1965 Decision to Send Ground Troops Into Vietnam | |
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Bush's Wartime Effort to Reform Social Security | |
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Final Remarks | |
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Conclusion | |
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Summaries, Speculations, and Extensions | |
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Holes and Extensions | |
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The Future of War | |
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A Future for the Policy Priority Model | |
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Appendixes | |
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Technical Details, Chapter 2 | |
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Alternative Bridging Criteria, Chapter 5 | |
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Summary Tables, Chapter 5 | |
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Robustness Checks, Chapter 5 | |
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Alternative Estimation Procedures | |
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Alternative Interest Group Bridges | |
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Changes In the Agenda | |
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Subsets of Roll Call Votes | |
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Defining the Beginning of War | |
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Rising Conservatism and War | |
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Placebo Tests | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |