Imperial Presidency and American Politics

Name: Imperial Presidency and American Politics
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The Imperial Presidency and American PoliticsGovernance by Edicts and Coups\nAuthor(s): Benjamin Ginsberg\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367625283, 978-0367625283\nSynopsis\nThose who saw Donald Trump as a novel threat looming over American democracy and now think the danger has passed may not have been paying much attention to the political developments of the past several decades. Trump was merely the most recentand will surely not be the lastin a long line of presidents who expanded the powers of the office and did not hesitate to act unilaterally when so doing served their purposes. Unfortunately, Trump is also unlikely to be the last president prepared to do away with his enemies in the Congress and transform the imperial presidency from a theory to a reality. Though presidents are elected more or less democratically, the presidency is not and was never intended to be a democratic institution. The framers.