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Overseen or overlooked? : legislators, armed forces, and democratic accountability /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Auerswald, David P. (Author), Lagassé, Philippe (Author), Saideman, Stephen M. (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Civil supremacy over the military.
Civil-military relations.
Legislative power.
Democracy.
Suprématie du pouvoir civil sur le pouvoir militaire.
Relations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire.
Pouvoir législatif.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : are legislators watching the armed forces?
  • Explaining legislative oversight over the armed forces
  • Part I. Are Westminster parliaments ignorant and irrelevant?
  • Westminster in the Atlantic : the United Kingdom and Canada
  • Westminster in the Pacific : Australia, New Zealand, and Japan
  • Part II. Consensus democracies
  • Consensus democracies in the heart of Europe : Germany and Belgium
  • Consensual democracies in the high north : Finland, Norway, and Sweden
  • Part III. Congresses are overrated
  • Not all congresses : Brazil, Chile, and South Korea
  • Older presidential systems : France and the United States
  • Conclusion : comparisons, implications, and lessons.