{"id":347,"date":"2014-01-15T20:03:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T04:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/wordpress\/?p=347"},"modified":"2016-03-15T14:54:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T21:54:54","slug":"347","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/index.php\/347\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Becca Thorpe&#8217;s recent book wins two national awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_347'] = [\n{id: 348, image: 'https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thorpe.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thorpe-150x150.jpg', permalink: ''}\n];<\/script>\n<p><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_347\" data-imgid=\"348\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thorpe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-348\" alt=\"thorpe\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thorpe-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>How is it that the United States\u2014a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong centralized power\u2014came to have the most powerful military in history? Long after World War II and the end of the Cold War, in times of rising national debt and reduced need for high levels of military readiness, why does Congress still continue to support massive defense budgets?<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on an impressive cache of data, Professor Thorpe reveals how changing incentive structures have profoundly reshaped the balance of wartime powers between Congress and the president, resulting in a defense industry perennially poised for war and an executive branch that enjoys unprecedented discretion to take military action.<\/p>\n<par>Winner of the 2015 Richard Neustadt Award for the best book on the Presidency\n<par>Winner of the 28th Annual D.B. Hardeman Prize from the Lyndon Johnson Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/A\/bo17607479.html\">University of Chicago Press 2014<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is it that the United States\u2014a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong centralized power\u2014came to have the most powerful military in history? Long after World War II and the end of the Cold War, in times of rising national debt and reduced need for high \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/index.php\/347\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cappp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}