Taming the prince : the ambivalence of modern executive power
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書誌事項
Taming the prince : the ambivalence of modern executive power
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993
Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed
- : pbk. : alk. paper
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-345) and index
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内容説明
This survey of Western political thought ranges from Aristotle to "The Federalist Papers", showing how the doctrine of executive power arose and how it has developed to the present day. Although there were various "proto-executives", from Roman dictators to Christian kings, the modern executive first appears with Machiavelli's "The Prince". Yet Machiavelli's strong - even cruel - leader undermines republican theory. Subsequent philosophers, Mansfield argues, seized upon the Prince and transformed him into the American president. Liberalized by Locke, constitutionalized by Montesquieu, Machiavelli's bloodthirsty executive was finally "tamed" by channelling his antinomian energies into a uniquely flexible constitutional framework.
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