Executive power in theory and practice /
Liebert, Hugh.
McDowell, Gary L.,1949-
Price, Terry L.,1966-
New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Executive power.
Executive power