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The decline and fall of the American republic / Bruce Ackerman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ackerman, Bruce A.
- Series:
- Tanner lectures on human values (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Tanner lectures on human values
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States.
- Presidents.
- Executive power--United States.
- Executive power.
- Constitutional history--United States.
- Constitutional history.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1989-.
- Physical Description:
- 270 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for political extremism, and proposes a series of reforms that will minimize, if not eliminate, the risks going forward.
- Contents:
- Triumphalism
- The most dangerous branch
- An extremist presidency
- The politicized military
- The question of legitimacy
- Three crises
- Executive constitutionalism
- Reconstruction
- Enlightening politics
- Restoring the rule of law
- Living dangerously.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674058392
- 0674058399
- OCLC:
- 709593047
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