Extra-Legal Power and Legitimacy: Perspectives on Prerogative - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199965536 ISBN 13: 9780199965533

Publisher: OUP USA, 2013

Synopsis

Examines the costs and benefits associated with how governments have wielded extra-legal powers in times of emergencies.

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About the Author

Clement Fatovic is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. His work focuses on modern and contemporary political and constitutional theory, primarily the development of liberalism constitutionalism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century political thought up to the American Founding. His writing has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, History of Political Thought, and more. He is the author of Outside the Law: Emergency and Executive Power (2009).



Benjamin A. Kleinerman is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Democracy in the James Madison College at Michigan State University. His work focuses on constitutional democracy, and he has written on the subject of executive power in the American Constitution. He previously taught at Oberlin College and the Virginia Military Institute, and was Garwood Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University (2011-12). His work has appeared in Perspectives on Politics, American Political Science Review, and Nomos. He is the author of The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power (2009).

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199965536
• ISBN 13: 9780199965533
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Fatovic Clement, Kleinerman Benjamin A.