Take Up Your Pen - Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics

Informationen zum Autor Graham G. Dodds Klappentext Graham G. Dodds is Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University. Zusammenfassung Graham G. Dodds explores the constitutional and historical development of unilateral presidential directives-the ability of presidents to bypass the legislative process and set public policy via their own executive orders-and how such a practice fits Americans' conception of democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Unilateral Directives and the Presidency Chapter 2. The Constitutional Executive Chapter 3. Judicial Sanction Chapter 4. Early Unilateral Presidential Directives Chapter 5. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Unilateral Presidential Directives Chapter 6. Unilateral Presidential Directives from Roosevelt to Roosevelt: Taft through Chapter 7. Unilateral Presidential Directives from the Postwar Era to the Present Day Chapter 8. Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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• Authors: Graham G Dodds, Graham G. Dodds, DODDS GRAHAM G
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2013
• EAN: 9780812245110
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4511-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism; Democracy, Citizenship, and Co; Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism; Democracy, Citizenship, and Co
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education