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The presidency and the challenge of democracy /

It is clear that the tectonic plates of the American political system are gravitating towards a model of presidential government not envisioned and, in fact, precluded by the constitutional design of the framers of the United States Constitution. As the presidency eclipses Congress and the courts in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Genovese, Michael A., Han, Lori Cox
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Evolving American presidency.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Is the Presidency Dangerous to Democracy? / Michael A. Genovese
  • From Presidential Wars to American Hegemony: The Constitution after 9/11 / Louis Fisher
  • Guarding the Parchment Barrier: The Attorney General and Presidential Power in Wartime / Nancy V. Baker
  • The Constitutional Checks and Balances that Neither Check nor Balance / Nancy Kassop
  • The Commander-in-Chief Power and Constitutional Invention in the Bush Administration / Robert J. Spitzer
  • The President over the Public: The Plebiscitary Presidency at Center Stage / Lori Cox Han
  • From Multilateralism to Unilateralism: Evaluating U.S. Policy Making in the United Nations, Gulf Wars I and II / Meena Bose
  • The President as King: The Usurpation of War and Foreign Affairs Powers in the Modern Age / David Gray Adler
  • Conclusion: The American Presidency in the Post-9/11 World / Thomas E. Cronin.