Reclaiming accountability : transparency, executive power, and the U.S. Constitution /

How do we reconcile calls for greater accountability with the competing need for secrecy? Those two imperatives are usually taken to be antithetical, but Heidi Kitrosser argues that this is not the case and that our concern ought to lie not with secrecy, but with the sort of unchecked secrecy that c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kitrosser, Heidi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Temas:
Executive power > United States.
Government accountability > United States.
Executive privilege (Government information) > United States.
Transparency in government > United States.
Constitutional law > United States.
Pouvoir exécutif > États-Unis.
Obligation de rendre compte (Administration publique) > États-Unis.
Privilège de l'exécutif (Information sur l'État) > États-Unis.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Constitutional law
Executive power
Executive privilege (Government information)
Government accountability
Transparency in government
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The constitutional law of government secrecy
  • The tools and politics of constitutional meaning
  • Substantive accountability and external checking
  • Supremacy explained and critiqued
  • How supremacy undermines substantive accountability
  • Presidential supremacy in the courts
  • Substantive accountability and internal checking
  • How unitary executive theory undermines substantive accountability
  • Where do we go from here?

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