Executive Decree Authority
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- Editors:
- John M. Carey, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
- Matthew Soberg Shugart, University of California, San Diego
- Date Published: May 1998
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521597227
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When Boris Yeltsin calls out the tanks and shells parliament, or when he pins medals on veterans, both acts are called executive decrees, but we do not understand both to be equivalent examples of executive discretion over policymaking. Executives increasingly take (or are given) the authority to act without concurrent legislative action. This book offers a theory of political institutions that predicts when executives should turn to decree and when legislatures should accept--or even prefer--this method of making policy. Extensive case studies demonstrate how decree has been used and abused in widely different political environments.
Read more- Takes a familiar phenomenon, identifies why it is important, and presents a general theory of why it matters in performance of democracy
- Draws from a range of countries that are of intense interest to students of comparative politics
- Represents a coordinated effort to bring the resources of a dozen well-known scholars to bear on a single central question
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"This important book is well worth the attention of comparativists and should serve as a guide to further endeavours in the field of executive-legislative relations." William M. Downs, Canadian Journal of Political Science
See more reviews"This intriguing book provides useful conceptual tools for analyzing presidential decree authority...Executive Decree Authority will be helpful both as a handbook that will inform the literature on the different practices of executive decree authority in various presidential democracies and as a work that provides a more nuanced analysis of the subject." Latin American Research Review
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- Date Published: May 1998
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521597227
- length: 346 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.48kg
- contains: 14 b/w illus. 33 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Calling out the tanks or filling out the forms? John M. Carey and Matthew Soberg Shugart
2. When the president governs alone: the decretazo in Argentina 1989–93 Delia Ferreira Rubio and Matteo Goretti
3. Presidential decree authority in Russia, 1991–5 Scott Parrish
4. Presidential usurpation or congressional preference?: the evolution of executive decree authority in Peru Gregory Schmidt
5. Presidential decree authority in Venezuela Brian F. Crisp
6. Dancing without a lead: legislative decrees in Italy Vincent Della Sala and Amie Kreppel
7. The pen is mightier than the congress: Presidential decree power in Brazil Timothy J. Power
8. Executive decree authority in France John D. Huber
9. In search of the administrative President: Presidential 'decree' powers and policy implementation in the United States Brian R. Sala
10. Institutional design and executive decree John M. Carey and Matthew Soberg Shugart
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