The specter of dictatorship : judicial enabling of presidential power / David M. Driesen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Driesen, David M., author.

Series:

Stanford studies in law and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Supreme Court.

United States.

Presidents--United States.

Presidents.

Executive power--United States.

Executive power.

Separation of powers--United States.

Separation of powers.

Political questions and judicial power--United States.

Political questions and judicial power.

Democracy--United States.

Democracy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Specter of Dictatorship

Place of Publication:

Stanford University Press.

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

System Details:

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Summary:

"Reveals how the U.S. Supreme Court's presidentialism threatens our democracy and what to do about it. Donald Trump's presidency made many Americans wonder whether our system of checks and balances would prove robust enough to withstand an onslaught from a despotic chief executive. In The Specter of Dictatorship, David Driesen analyzes the chief executive's role in the democratic decline of Hungary, Poland, and Turkey and argues that an insufficiently constrained presidency is one of the most important systemic threats to democracy. Driesen urges the U.S. to learn from the mistakes of these failing democracies. Their experiences suggest, Driesen shows, that the Court must eschew its reliance on and expansion of the "unitary executive theory" recently endorsed by the Court and apply a less deferential approach to presidential authority, invoked to protect national security and combat emergencies, than it has in recent years. Ultimately, Driesen argues that concern about loss of democracy should play a major role in the Court's jurisprudence, because loss of democracy can prove irreversible. As autocracy spreads throughout the world, maintaining our democracy has become an urgent matter"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Avoiding tyranny at the founding

The rise of presidential power

Declining to adjudicate claims against the president

Implied presidential and congressional power

The specter of dictatorship : Poland, Hungary, and Turkey

Parallels to America's democratic erosion

Judicial treatment of presidential power in an age of democratic decline.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Driesen, David M.. The specter of dictatorship

ISBN:

9781503628625

1503628620

OCLC:

1242022172