Checks in the Balance : : Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power /

Checks in the Balance : : Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power / / Sharece Thrower, Alexander Bolton.

How access to resources and policymaking powers determines the balance of power between the legislative and executive branchesThe specter of unbridled executive power looms large in the American political imagination. Are checks and balances enough to constrain ambitious executives? Checks in the Ba...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Bolton, Alexander,
Thrower, Sharece,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2022
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ; 193
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 11 b/w illus. 13 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • 1. Executive Power in the Shadow of Legislative Capacity
  • 2. Legislative Capacity, Executive Action, and Separation of Powers
  • 3. “Outmanned and Outgunned”: The Historical Development of Congressional Capacity
  • 4. Pulling the Purse Strings: Legislative Capacity and Discretion
  • 5. Continuous Watchfulness? Legislative Capacity and Oversight
  • 6. The Pendulum of Power: Presidential Unilateral Policymaking
  • 7. Calling Their Own Shots? Unilateral Policymaking in the US States
  • 8. The Future of Legislative Capacity and Executive Power
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • Princeton Studies in American Politics
  • A NOTE ON THE TYPE

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