Executive power in theory and practice

Since September 11, 2001, long-standing debates over the nature and proper extent of executive power have assumed a fresh urgency. In this book eleven leading scholars of American politics and political theory address the idea of executive power. HUGH LIEBERT John Marshall visiting research fellow for 2009-2010 at the Jepson School of Leadership with the University of Richmond, USA. He has taughtcourses such as Introduction to Political Thought, Classics of Social and Political Thought, and Modern Political Theory: Liberal Democracy and the Birth of Economics at the University of Chicago and Furman University, USA. GARY L. MCDOWELL Professor and Tyler Haynes Interdisciplinary Chair in Leadership Studies, Political Science & Law at the Jepson School of Leadership with the University of Richmond. A leading constitutional scholar, he joined the Jepson faculty in 2003 after a distinguished career in public life and the academy. Prior to coming to the Jepson School, McDowell directed the Institute of United States Studies and taught American studies at the University of London. TERRY L. PRICE Professor & Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Jepson School of Leadership with the University of Richmond. He specializes in leadership ethicsand moral psychology. INDICE: Contributors *Acknowledgments* Introduction *Part I History of Executive Power * One The Price of Efficacy: Aristotle and Executive Power * TwoThe Roman Executive * ThreeUnderstanding the Things of State: On Machiavelli'sUse of Modo, Ordine, and Via * FourThomas Hobbes, Niccolò Machiavelli, and the Executive Power * Five Locke's Latent Sovereign * Part II The American Executive * SixConstituting the Prince * SevenUnLock[e]ing the Constitutional Separation of Powers * EightThe Madisonian Understanding of Executive Power: A Defense of Concurrent Powers * NineThe Imperiled Presidency: Informal Constraints on Executive Power * TenThe Political Costs of Legalizing Executive Power * ElevenThe Modern Executive Tames Obama * Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-33996-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 238
• Fecha Publicación: 03/02/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés