[PDF.56gv] Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power

Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power

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 | #3706098 in Books |  The Johns Hopkins University Press |  1993-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .94 x6.09 x9.23l, | File type: PDF | 392 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By stefan|Excellent book!|1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Frankly he writes from such a lofty place that I'm inclined to feel stupid for not fully understanding what he says|By John Galt|I never feel that I fully grasp Mansfield's writing. Frankly he writes from such a lofty place that I'm incline| ||"Perhaps the most penetrating study of executive power ever written... Mansfield's argument leads to a reassessment not only of executive power in general, but of the character of modern republicanism -- indeed, of modern politics altogether." -- of Politic

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 ...

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