MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01670cam a2200289 a 4500
001 2008040188
003 DLC
005 20090921105551.0
008 080918s2009 ilu b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2008040188
020 $a9780226749396 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0226749398 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aICU/DLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aJK516$b.S435 2009
082 00 $a320.473/04$222
100 1 $aShane, Peter M.
245 10 $aMadison's nightmare :$bhow executive power threatens American democracy /$cPeter M. Shane.
260 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$cc2009.
300 $axi, 245 p. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aMadison's nightmare: how the federal government became unchecked and unbalanced -- Checks and balances in law and history -- Iraq and the (unlearned) lessons of Vietnam: presidentialism and the pathologies of unilateral policy making -- Presidentialism, national security, and the breakdown of government lawyering -- Form over accountability: executive privilege, signing statements, and the illusion of law -- The president's personal bureaucracy: administrative accountability and the unitary Executive -- Recovering the Madisonian dream: visions of democracy, steps to reform.
650 0 $aExecutive power$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aSeparation of powers$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aRepresentative government and representation$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y21st century.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0828/2008040188.html