Cohn, Margit,

A theory of the executive branch : tension and legality / Margit Cohn. - First edition. - 1 online resource (352 pages). - Oxford scholarship online . - Oxford scholarship online. .

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Specialized.

9780191861154 (ebook) : No price


Executive power--Western countries.
Executive departments--Western countries.
Separation of powers--Western countries.
Democracy--Philosophy.


Western countries--Politics and government.

JF251

342.062