The executive and public law : power and accountability in comparative perspective /
Craig
Craig, P. PContributor
Tomkins, AdamContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2006.
This book examines executive power in the United Kingdom from a British and from a distinctively Scottish perspective. There are chapters on the four common law jurisdictions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States and on the four civil law jurisdictions of France, Germany, Italy and Spain, and on the EU.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This book examines executive power in the United Kingdom from a British and from a distinctively Scottish perspective. There are chapters on the four common law jurisdictions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States and on the four civil law jurisdictions of France, Germany, Italy and Spain, and on the EU.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The struggle to delimit executive power in Britain / Adam Tomkins -- The ambivalence of executive power in Canada / Lorne Sossin -- Continuity and flexibility : executive power in Australia / Simon Evans -- New public management New Zealand style / Janet McLean -- Taming the most dangerous branch : the scope and accountability of executive power in the United States / Ernest A. Young -- The domesticated executive of Scotland / Chris Himsworth -- Executive power in France / Denis Baranger -- The growth of the Italian executive / Giacinto della Cananea -- The scope and accountability of executive power in Germany / Eberhard Schmidt-Assmann and Christoph Möllers -- The executive and the law in Spain / Daniel Sarmiento -- The locus and accountability of the executive in the European Union / Paul Craig.
Executive power
Law, Politics & Government
Law, General & Comparative