H. Liebert & G. McDowell 
Executive Power in Theory and Practice 

Since September 11, 2001, long-standing debates over the nature and proper extent of executive power have assumed a fresh urgency. In this book eleven leading scholars of American politics and political theory address the idea of executive power.

Table of Content

Contributors *Acknowledgments* Introduction *Part I History of Executive Power * One The Price of Efficacy: Aristotle and Executive Power * Two The Roman Executive * Three Understanding the Things of State: On Machiavelli’s Use of Modo, Ordine, and Via * Four Thomas Hobbes, Niccolò Machiavelli, and the Executive Power * Five Locke’s Latent Sovereign * Part II The American Executive * Six Constituting the Prince * Seven Un Lock[e]ing the Constitutional Separation of Powers * Eight The Madisonian Understanding of Executive Power: A Defense of Concurrent Powers * Nine The Imperiled Presidency: Informal Constraints on Executive Power * Ten The Political Costs of Legalizing Executive Power * Eleven The Modern Executive Tames Obama * Index

About the author

Terry L. Price is Professor of Leadership Studies and Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. He has degrees in philosophy, politics, and psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Oxford, and he has completed his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Arizona. His work has been published in outlets such as the Encyclopedia of Leadership, Journal of Political Philosophy, and Leadership Quarterly. He is author of Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership on Cambridge University Press and co-editor of the three-volume reference set The International Library of Leadership.