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.