Madison's nightmare
Subtitle: how executive power threatens American democracy
By: Peter M. Shane.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780226749396
Subjects: Executive power -- United States -- History; Separation of powers -- United States -- History; Representative government and representation -- United States -- History; United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Madison's nightmare: how the federal government became unchecked and unbalanced; title: Checks and balances in law and history; title: Iraq and the (unlearned) lessons of Vietnam: presidentialism and the pathologies of unilateral policy making; title: Presidentialism, national security, and the breakdown of government lawyering; title: Form over accountability: executive privilege, signing statements, and the illusion of law; title: The president's personal bureaucracy: administrative accountability and the unitary Executive; title: Recovering the Madisonian dream: visions of democracy, steps to reform.