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Executive power in theory and practice / edited by Hugh Liebert, Gary L. McDowell and Terry L. Price.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Jepson studies in leadership
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Executive power.
- Executive power--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. History of executive power: the price of efficacy: Aristotle and executive power / Robert Faulkner; The Roman Executive / Hugh Liebert; Understanding the things of state: on Machiavelli's use of modo, ordine, and via / Thomas Karako; Thomas Hobbes, Machiavelli, and the executive power / Paul A. Rahe; Locke's latent sovereign / Lynn Uzzell
- Part II. The American executive: constituting the prince / Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick
- Unlocking the constitutional separation of powers / David K. Nichols; The Madisonian understanding of executive power / William A. Galston; the imperiled presidency: informal constraints on executive power / Karen M. Hult; the political costs of legalizing executive power / Alison M. Smith; the modern executive tames Obama / John Yoo.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sylvia W. Kauders Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781137014450 (electronic bk.)
- 1137014458 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99993027260
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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