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Author:

Cohn, Margit, author.

Title:

A theory of the executive branch : tension and legality / Margit Cohn, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Edition:

First Edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xi, 329 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Executive power--Western countries.
Executive departments--Western countries.
Democracy--Philosophy.
Western countries--Politics and government.
Democracy--Philosophy.
Executive departments.
Executive power.
Politics and government.
Western countries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

This monograph offers a theoretical foundation of the executive branch in Western democracies and argues that the tension between dominance and submission is maintained by the adoption of various forms of fuzziness, under which a guise of legality masks the absence of the substantive limitation of power.

ISBN:

9780198821984
0198821980

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1203136413

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)