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Reclaiming Accountability

- Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution
Af: Heidi Kitrosser Engelsk Paperback

Reclaiming Accountability

- Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution
Af: Heidi Kitrosser Engelsk Paperback
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Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and accountable. Those who govern us work for us, and therefore they must also answer to us. But how do we reconcile calls for greater accountability with the competing need for secrecy, especially in matters of national security? Those two imperatives are usually taken to be antithetical, but Heidi Kitrosser argues convincingly that this is not the case-and that our concern ought to lie not with secrecy, but with the sort of unchecked secrecy that can result from "presidentialism," or constitutional arguments for broad executive control of information. In Reclaiming Accountability, Kitrosser traces presidentialism from its start as part of a decades-old legal movement through its appearance during the Bush and Obama administrations, demonstrating its effects on secrecy throughout. Taking readers through the key presidentialist arguments-including "supremacy" and "unitary executive theory"-she explains how these arguments misread the Constitution in a way that is profoundly at odds with democratic principles. Kitrosser's own reading offers a powerful corrective, showing how the Constitution provides myriad tools, including the power of Congress and the courts to enforce checks on presidential power, through which we could reclaim government accountability.
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Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and accountable. Those who govern us work for us, and therefore they must also answer to us. But how do we reconcile calls for greater accountability with the competing need for secrecy, especially in matters of national security? Those two imperatives are usually taken to be antithetical, but Heidi Kitrosser argues convincingly that this is not the case-and that our concern ought to lie not with secrecy, but with the sort of unchecked secrecy that can result from "presidentialism," or constitutional arguments for broad executive control of information. In Reclaiming Accountability, Kitrosser traces presidentialism from its start as part of a decades-old legal movement through its appearance during the Bush and Obama administrations, demonstrating its effects on secrecy throughout. Taking readers through the key presidentialist arguments-including "supremacy" and "unitary executive theory"-she explains how these arguments misread the Constitution in a way that is profoundly at odds with democratic principles. Kitrosser's own reading offers a powerful corrective, showing how the Constitution provides myriad tools, including the power of Congress and the courts to enforce checks on presidential power, through which we could reclaim government accountability.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9780226565675
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 022656567X
Kategori: Statslig, National & føderal myndighed
Udg. Dato: 2 maj 2018
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 228mm
Højde: 223mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 2 maj 2018
Forfatter(e): Heidi Kitrosser
Forfatter(e) Heidi Kitrosser

Kategori Statslig, National & føderal myndighed

ISBN-13 9780226565675

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 272

Udgave

Længde 21mm

Bredde 228mm

Højde 223mm

Udg. Dato 2 maj 2018

Oplagsdato 2 maj 2018

Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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