Breaking Through the Noise: Presidential Leadership, Public Opinion, and the News Media
In: Studies in the modern presidency
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In: Studies in the modern presidency
In: Studies in the Modern Presidency Ser.
"American diplomacy is broken. As a result, the United States sits on the sidelines as the remainder of the world writes international law dealing with a host of vexing problems. The source of the dysfunction is domestic politics. Partisan polarization has rendered the domestic treaty process unworkable. Instead, presidents rely entirely on unilateral tools to complete their agreements, making them far weaker and less legitimate. Using a mixed-methods approach, Peake assesses the politics surrounding treaty ratification and the use of unilateral authority since World War Two, with a particular focus on the twenty-first century. He employs original data from 1949 through 2020, including 1,000 treaties and more than 3,000 executive agreements. The analysis provides case studies of the domestic politics of several recent international agreements, including on climate change, Iranian nuclear weapons, security in Iraq and Afghanistan, human rights, and the law of the sea"--
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"American diplomacy is broken. As a result, the United States sits on the sidelines as the remainder of the world writes international law dealing with a host of vexing problems. The source of the dysfunction is domestic politics. Partisan polarization has rendered the domestic treaty process unworkable. Instead, presidents rely entirely on unilateral tools to complete their agreements, making them far weaker and less legitimate. Using a mixed-methods approach, Peake assesses the politics surrounding treaty ratification and the use of unilateral authority since World War Two, with a particular focus on the twenty-first century. He employs original data from 1949 through 2020, including 1,000 treaties and more than 3,000 executive agreements. The analysis provides case studies of the domestic politics of several recent international agreements, including on climate change, Iranian nuclear weapons, security in Iraq and Afghanistan, human rights, and the law of the sea"--
In: Congress & the presidency, Band 49, Heft 3, S. 395-397
ISSN: 1944-1053
In: Congress & the presidency, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 336-337
ISSN: 1944-1053
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 243-245
ISSN: 1541-0986
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In: Foreign policy analysis, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 832-853
ISSN: 1743-8594
Treaties represent an important policy mechanism in US foreign policy. There are good reasons to expect that the political process underlying treaty ratification in the United States is structured by the partisan political context, the policy context including the policy agenda, and, in the case of bilateral agreements, the relationship between the treaty partners. I analyze the duration of the ratification process for all bilateral treaties transmitted by the president to the Senate from 1949 to 2012. I focus the analysis on two key stages where delay is most common: the presidential transmittal stage and the Senate Foreign Relations committee stage. Analysis indicates that presidential resources, partisan polarization, the broader policy agenda, and the value of the treaty structure presidential decisions on treaty transmittal. I find less support for these factors at the committee stage; however, the committee processes treaties with democracies more quickly than treaties with other states. The results have important implications for US foreign policy.
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In: 2015 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, April 16-19, 2015
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In: Foreign policy analysis, S. n/a-n/a
ISSN: 1743-8594
In: APSA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper
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In: Congress & the presidency, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 322-324
ISSN: 1944-1053
In: Congress and the presidency: an interdisciplinary journal of political science and history, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 322
ISSN: 0734-3469
In: Southern Political Science Association Meetings, January 2013
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