Executive power in theory and practice
By: edited by Hugh Liebert, Gary L. McDowell and Terry L. Price
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Jepson studies in leadership; Jepson studies in leadership
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780230339965
Subjects: Executive power
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 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; title: Part II. The American executive: constituting the prince / Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick; title: 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.