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From the author: "Foreign Policy for Sale? Interest Group Influence on President Clinton's Cuba Policy, August 1994." What role do interest groups play in presidential wheeling and dealing surrounding foreign policy? In questioning whether foreign policy is for sale, Jonathan C. Smith revisits the conventional scholarly wisdom that the image of interest group influence on foreign policy is overblown. Drawing from events in the Clinton administration that have contributed to this questioning of scholarly wisdom, Smith focuses on the August 1994 reforms to U.S. policy toward Cuba. He concludes that while interest groups can have some influence over a president's foreign policy decision making, they operate largely at the margins and thus the image of powerful interest groups buying foreign policy outcomes is exaggerated. Also, conversely, the impact of the president on interest groups in this arena is shown to be great, so the influence and manipulation are actually two-way.

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Title: Foreign policy for sale? Interest group influence on President Clinton's Cuba policy, August 1994. (Bill Clinton)(Wheeling and Dealing in the White House)
Author: Jonathan C. Smith
Publication:Presidential Studies Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1998
Publisher: Center for the Study of the Presidency
Volume: v28 Issue: n1 Page: p207(14)

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