Bruce Buchanan

Presidential Power and Accountability (eBook, PDF)

Toward a Presidential Accountability System

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Many analysts now believe that the growth of presidential war power relative to Congress is irreversible. This book was written to contest that view. Its purpose is to identify what would be required to restore presidential war power to constitutional specifications while leaving the president powerful enough to do what is truly necessary in the face of any emergency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136278341
• Artikelnr.: 38247430

Autorenporträt

Bruce Buchanan is a professor in the department of government at University of Texas at Austin. He is a scholar of the presidency and a political analyst whose commentary on the presidency and American politics appears in national and international print and broadcast news media. He is the author of numerous books on the presidency concerning how to make the institution both more effective and more democratic.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Rethinking Presidential Power. Part I: Problems. Chapter 2:
Incoherent Presidential Accountability. Chapter 3: The Unconscious
Presidential Accountability System. Part II: Costs. Chapter 4: Presidential
Wars of Choice. Part III: Remedies. Chapter 5: Bringing the PAS to Life:
The Presidential Accountability Project. Chapter 6: Prospective
Accountability for Wars of Choice: Policy Trials.