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Executive Power in Theory and Practice

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Hugh Liebert

    1. Department of social sciences, United States Military Academy, USA

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  2. Gary L. McDowell

    1. University of Richmond, USA

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  3. Terry L. Price

    1. University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies, USA

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Part of the book series: Jepson Studies in Leadership (JSL)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Hugh Liebert
      Pages 1-8

  3. History of Executive Power

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. The Price of Efficacy: Aristotle and Executive Power

      • Robert Faulkner
      Pages 11-30

    3. The Roman Executive

      • Hugh Liebert
      Pages 31-53

    4. Understanding the Things of State: On Machiavelli’s Use of Modo, Ordine, and Via

      • Thomas Karako
      Pages 55-82

    5. Thomas Hobbes, Niccolò Machiavelli, and the Executive Power

      • Paul A. Rahe
      Pages 83-94

    6. Locke’s Latent Sovereign

      • Lynn Uzzell
      Pages 95-110

  4. The American Executive

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Constituting the Prince

      • Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick
      Pages 113-128

    3. UnLock[e]ing the Constitutional Separation of Powers

      • David K. Nichols
      Pages 129-154

    4. The Madisonian Understanding of Executive Power: A Defense of Concurrent Powers

      • William A. Galston
      Pages 155-167

    5. The Imperiled Presidency: Informal Constraints on Executive Power

      • Karen M. Hult
      Pages 169-181

    6. The Political Costs of Legalizing Executive Power

      • Alison M. Smith
      Pages 183-198

    7. The Modern Executive Tames Obama

      • John Yoo
      Pages 199-215

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 217-222
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of social sciences, United States Military Academy, USA

    Hugh Liebert

  • University of Richmond, USA

    Gary L. McDowell

  • University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies, USA

    Terry L. Price

About the editors

Terry L. Price is Professor of Leadership Studies and Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. He has degrees in philosophy, politics, and psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Oxford, and he has completed his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Arizona. His work has been published in outlets such as the Encyclopedia of Leadership, Journal of Political Philosophy, and Leadership Quarterly. He is author of Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership on Cambridge University Press and co-editor of the three-volume reference set The International Library of Leadership.

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