Executive Power in Theory and Practice (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Liebert, H.; Mcdowell, G.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Since September 11, 2001, long-standing debates over the nature and proper extent of executive power have assumed a fresh urgency. In this book eleven leading scholars of American politics and political theory address the idea of executive power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137014450
• Artikelnr.: 46753758

Autorenporträt

Terry L. Price is Professor of Leadership Studies and Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. He has degrees in philosophy, politics, and psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Oxford, and he has completed his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Arizona. His work has been published in outlets such as the Encyclopedia of Leadership, Journal of Political Philosophy, and Leadership Quarterly. He is author of Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership on Cambridge University Press and co-editor of the three-volume reference set The International Library of Leadership.

Inhaltsangabe

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, Niccolò 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