Executive power in theory and practice

Since September 11, 2001, long-standing debates over the nature and proper extent of executive power have assumed a fresh urgency. In this book eleven leading scholars of American politics and political theory address the idea of executive power

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liebert, Hugh (Author), McDowell, Gary L. , 1949- (Author), Price, Terry L. , 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan , c2012
Series:Jepson studies in leadership
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300 |a xvi, 222 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 23 cm. 
490 1 |a Jepson studies in leadership 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. The price of efficacy : Aristotle and executive power -- 2. The roman executive -- 3. Understanding the things of state : on Machiavelli's use of modo, ordine, and via -- 4. Thomas Hobbes, Machiavelli, and the executive power -- 5. Locke's latent sovereign -- 6. Constituting the prince -- 7. Unlocking the constitutional separation of powers -- 8. The Madisonian understanding of executive power : a defense of concurrent powers -- 9. The imperiled presidency : informal constraints on executive power -- 10. The political costs of legalizing executive power -- 11. The modern executive Tames Obama 
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700 1 |a Price, Terry L. ,   |d 1966- ,   |e author 
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