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This article is a revised version of “The International System and Foreign Policy” in The President, the Congress, and the Making of Foreign Policy (Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994), 3-22.
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The President's Dominance in Foreign Policy Making. . Political Science Quarterly, 109(2), 215-234. 1994.
Reprinted in Jeffrey Cohen and David Nice, eds., The Presidency: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2002.
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Reprinted in The Brookings Review, Winter, 1993, pp. 18-23 and, in abridged form, in Harper's, February, 1993, pp. 23-26.
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The Rise and Fall of Special Interest Politics. In Mark Petracca, Ed.. The Transformation of Interest Group Politics. Westview. 1991.