| While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers Subjects: Executive power -- United States; Legislative power -- United States; Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States; War and emergency powers -- United States; Nearly five hundred times in the past century, American presidents have deployed the nation's military abroad, on missions ranging from embassy evacuations to full-scale wars. The question of whether Congress has effectively limited the president's power to do so has generally met with a resounding "no." In While Dangers Gather , William Howell and Jon Pevehouse reach a very different conclusion. William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse are associate professors at the University of Chicago's Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy. Howell is the author of Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action (Princeton). Pevehouse is the author of, most recently, Democracy from Above |