The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power

by David M. Driesen

Book Overview

Reveals how the U.S. Supreme Court's presidentialism threatens our democracy and what to do about it.

Donald Trump's presidency made many Americans wonder whether our system of checks and balances would prove robust enough to withstand an onslaught from a despotic chief executive. In The Specter of Dictatorship, David Driesen analyzes the chief executive's role in the democratic decline of Hungary, Poland, and Turkey and argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503628612
• ISBN13: 9781503628618
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"