Taming the Prince
by Mansfield, Harvey C.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1989-09-14
Publisher(s): Free Press
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Summary
Looks at the development of the concept of executive power, discusses the philosophical influences and considers the role of the executive in business and politics
Author Biography
Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., is Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government at Harvard University.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Preface to the Paperback Edition | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xix |
| Introduction: The Ambivalence of Executive Power | p. 1 |
| The Prehistory of Executive Power | |
| Aristotle: The Executive as Kingship | p. 23 |
| Aristotle: The Absent Executive in the Mixed Regime | p. 45 |
| Proto-Executives | p. 73 |
| The Theologico-Political Executive | p. 91 |
| The Discovery of Executive Power | |
| Machiavelli and the Modern Executive | p. 121 |
| Hobbes and the Political Science of Power | p. 151 |
| The Constitutional Executive | |
| Constitutionalizing the Executive | p. 181 |
| Moderating the Executive | p. 213 |
| Republicanizing the Executive | p. 247 |
| Conclusion: The Form and the End | p. 279 |
| Notes | p. 299 |
| Bibliography of Secondary Works | p. 337 |
| Index | p. 347 |
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