Since September 11, 2001, long-standing debates over the nature and proper extent of executive power have assumed a fresh urgency. What is executive power? When did it first emerge, and why? And what is the role of the executive within the American regime? In this book, eleven leading scholars of American politics and political theory address these and related questions, in essays on topics ranging from Aristotle and the Roman Republic to the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
| ISBN | 0230339964 | | Pages | 238 | | ISBN13 | 9780230339965
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 399 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Series title | Jepson Studies in Leadership | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 223 | | Publication date | 12 Jan 2012 | | Width (mm) | 142 | | DEWEY | 352.2350973 | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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Contributors *Acknowledgments* Introduction *Part I History of Executive Power * One The Price of Efficacy: Aristotle and Executive Power * TwoThe Roman Executive * ThreeUnderstanding the Things of State: On Machiavelli's Use of Modo, Ordine, and Via * FourThomas Hobbes, Niccolo Machiavelli, and the Executive Power * Five Locke's Latent Sovereign * Part II The American Executive * SixConstituting the Prince * SevenUnLock[e]ing the Constitutional Separation of Powers * EightThe Madisonian Understanding of Executive Power: A Defense of Concurrent Powers * NineThe Imperiled Presidency: Informal Constraints on Executive Power * TenThe Political Costs of Legalizing Executive Power * ElevenThe Modern Executive Tames Obama * Index
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