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
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan ,
c2012
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| Series: | Jepson studies in leadership
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Table of Contents:
- 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