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Popular perception holds that presidents act "first and alone,"
resorting to unilateral orders to promote an agenda and head off
unfavorable legislation. Little research, however, has considered
the diverse circumstances in which such orders are issued. The Dual
Executive reinterprets how and when presidents use unilateral power
by illuminating the dual roles of the president. Drawing from an
original data set of over 5,000 executive orders and proclamations
(the two most frequently used unilateral orders) from the Franklin
D. Roosevelt to the George W. Bush administrations (1933-2009),
this book situates unilateral orders within the broad scope of
executive-legislative relations. Michelle Belco and Brandon
Rottinghaus shed light on the shared nature of unilateral power by
recasting the executive as both an aggressive "commander" and a
cooperative "administrator" who uses unilateral power not only to
circumvent Congress, but also to support and facilitate its
operations.
Accessible and memorable for today's students, Inside Texas
Politics presents Texas government through an "insider's
perspective" using engaging stories, contemporary news events, and
current scholarship to help students understand and analyze
politics in the great state of Texas.
Watergate, Iran-Contra, Lewinsky, Enron, Bridgegate: according to
the popular media, executive scandals are ubiquitous. Although
individual scandals persist in the public memory and as the subject
of academic study, how do we understand the impacts of executive
indiscretion or malfeasance as a whole? What effect, if any, do
scandals have on political polarization, governance, and, most
importantly, democratic accountability? Recognizing the important
and enduring role of scandals in American government, this book
proposes a common intellectual framework for understanding their
nature and political effects. Brandon Rottinghaus takes a
systematic look the dynamics of the duration of scandals, the way
they affect presidents and governors' capacity to govern, and the
strategic choices executives make in confronting scandal at both
the state and national levels. His findings reveal much about not
only scandal, but the operation of American politics.
This collection of original essays by leading scholars and
advocates offers the first international examination of the nature,
causes, and effects of laws regulating voting by people with
criminal convictions. In deciding whether prisoners shall retain
the right to vote, a country faces vital questions about democratic
self-definition and constitutional values and, increasingly, about
the scope of judicial power. Yet in the rich and growing literature
on comparative constitutionalism, relatively little attention has
been paid to voting rights and election law. Democracy and
Punishment begins to fill that gap, showing how constitutional
courts in Israel, Canada, South Africa, and Australia, as well as
the European Court of Human Rights, have grappled with these
policies in the last decade, often citing one another along the
way. Chapters analyze partisan politics, political theory, prison
administration, and social values, showing that constitutional law
is the fruit of political and historical contingency, not just
constitutional texts and formal legal doctrine."
This collection of original essays by leading scholars and
advocates offers the first international examination of the nature,
causes, and effects of laws regulating voting by people with
criminal convictions. In deciding whether prisoners shall retain
the right to vote, a country faces vital questions about democratic
self-definition and constitutional values and, increasingly, about
the scope of judicial power. Yet in the rich and growing literature
on comparative constitutionalism, relatively little attention has
been paid to voting rights and election law. Democracy and
Punishment begins to fill that gap, showing how constitutional
courts in Israel, Canada, South Africa, and Australia, as well as
the European Court of Human Rights, have grappled with these
policies in the last decade, often citing one another along the
way. Chapters analyze partisan politics, political theory, prison
administration, and social values, showing that constitutional law
is the fruit of political and historical contingency, not just
constitutional texts and formal legal doctrine.
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