Promoting the president's foreign policy agenda. Presidential use of executive agreements as policy vehicles

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 631-644

  Caruson, Kiki ^a   Farrar Myers, Victoria A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive agreements; International agreement making; Presidential unilateral action; U.S. Foreign policy; U.S. Presidency

Indexed keywords

EID: 36649003480     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912907307519     Document Type: Article

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