A loud voice and a big stick : essays on military influence in America
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation is devoted to studying the role of military elites in American politics. I argue that American military elites are political actors: they have discernible patterns of partisan affiliation, they influence presidential decision-making on whether to use military force during foreign policy crises, and they can exert broad influence on Americans' attitudes. In contrast to President Teddy Roosevelt's philosophy, American military elites have a loud voice and carry a big stick: they wield political influence while commanding the vast military capabilities of the United States. However, contrary to normative concerns over military influence found in the civil-military relations literature, I argue that military influence is not necessarily a malignant feature of contemporary American politics, as military influence appears to be constrained in several important ways. Over several empirical chapters, I assemble evidence for this interpretation of military elites as political actors. In doing so, I advance the civil-military relations literature by introducing novel data into the literature, by leveraging innovative methods such as survey experimentation, and by applying rigorous quantitative methods to the study of civil-military relations
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Snyder, Neil |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Schultz, Kenneth A |
| Thesis advisor | Schultz, Kenneth A |
| Thesis advisor | Moe, Terry M |
| Thesis advisor | Tomz, Michael |
| Degree committee member | Moe, Terry M |
| Degree committee member | Tomz, Michael |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Neil N. Snyder |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Neil Snyder
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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