The executive and public law
Subtitle: power and accountability in comparative perspective
By: edited by Paul Craig and Adam Tomkins.
Contributors: Craig, P. P.; Tomkins, Adam.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Executive power
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The struggle to delimit executive power in Britain / Adam Tomkins; title: The ambivalence of executive power in Canada / Lorne Sossin; title: Continuity and flexibility : executive power in Australia / Simon Evans; title: New public management New Zealand style / Janet McLean; title: Taming the most dangerous branch : the scope and accountability of executive power in the United States / Ernest A. Young; title: The domesticated executive of Scotland / Chris Himsworth; title: Executive power in France / Denis Baranger; title: The growth of the Italian executive / Giacinto della Cananea; title: The scope and accountability of executive power in Germany / Eberhard Schmidt-Assmann and Christoph Möllers; title: The executive and the law in Spain / Daniel Sarmiento; title: The locus and accountability of the executive in the European Union / Paul Craig.