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JK516 .N35 2008eb
JK516
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N35
2008eb
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0816656770
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Bad for democracy :
[Book]
how the Presidency undermines the power of the people /
Dana D. Nelson.
Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2008.
1 online resource (263 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.
Introduction : the people v. presidentialism -- How the president becomes a superhero -- Voting and the incredibly shrinking citizen -- Presidential war powers and politics as war -- Going corporate with the unitary executive -- Conclusion : reclaiming democratic power for ourselves.
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Throughout our history, Americans have been simultaneously inspired and seduced by the American presidency and concerned about the misuse of presidential power-from the time of Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR to Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush-as a grave threat to the United States. In Bad for Democracy, Dana D. Nelson goes beyond blaming particular presidents for jeopardizing the delicate balance of the Constitution to argue that it is the office of the presidency itself that endangers the great American experiment. The emotional impulse to see the president as a hero, Nelson contends, has ceded o.
JSTOR
22573/cttbrsbq
Bad for democracy.
0816656770
Democracy-- United States.
Executive power-- United States.
Presidents-- United States.
Democracy.
Executive power.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- American Government-- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- National.
Presidents.
United States.
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