Interest Groups, Executive-Legislative Relations and the U.S. Politics of NATO Enlargement
Journal: The Sydney eScholarship Repository (The University of Sydney)
Year: 2014

The activism of ethnic interest groups reflects the development of a pluralist American foreign-policy process in the post-Cold War era. Since U.S. political power is divided and shared between the Presidency and Congress, there are two separate and interdependent decision-making arenas for interest groups to seek political access. A topic left relatively under examined is the impact of partisanship in executive-legislative relations on the strategies groups use to influence foreign-policy decis