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Fowler, Linda. and Law, R. Brian. "Declining Fortunes: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1946-2004" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40892_index.html>

Fowler, L. L. and Law, R. , 2005-09-01 "Declining Fortunes: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1946-2004" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40892_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The declining fortunes of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), from its heyday in the aftermath of World War II to its increasingly marginal role in the contemporary Senate, offer insight into the interplay of external and internal factors in generating institutional change. The paper demonstrates how asymmetrical presidential power insures that the SFRC is unable to recoup lost influence and how party polarization further weakens the committee’s internal and external prestige. Using OLS and Poisson regression, the paper links the SFRC’s decline in stature from 1947-2002 to a mix of gradual changes in the committee’s jurisdiction, short-term military shocks, and partisan developments. Broadly speaking, the paper’s focus on the evolution of informal structures suggests that purposive control over institutional arrangements inside Congress may be less than scholars typically assume.

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