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Madison's nightmare : how executive power threatens American democracy / Peter M. Shane.
LIBRA JK516 .S435 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shane, Peter M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Executive power--United States--History.
- Executive power.
- Politics and government.
- United States.
- History.
- Separation of powers--United States--History.
- Separation of powers.
- Representative government and representation--United States--History.
- Representative government and representation.
- United States--Politics and government--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 245 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Madison's nightmare: how the federal government became unchecked and unbalanced
- Checks and balances in law and history
- Iraq and the (unlearned) lessons of Vietnam: presidentialism and the pathologies of unilateral policy making
- Presidentialism, national security, and the breakdown of government lawyering
- Form over accountability: executive privilege, signing statements, and the illusion of law
- The president's personal bureaucracy: administrative accountability and the unitary Executive
- Recovering the Madisonian dream: visions of democracy, steps to reform.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226749396
- 0226749398
- OCLC:
- 256764505
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