Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power

by Alexander Bolton and Sharece Thrower

How access to resources and policymaking powers determines the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches

The specter of unbridled executive power looms large in the American political imagination. Are checks and balances enough to constrain ambitious executives? Checks in the Balance presents a new theory of separation of powers that brings legislative capacity to the fore, explaining why Congress and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691224617
• ISBN13: 9780691224619
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"