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Beyond Party Politics: The New President and the Growth of Executive Power

Author(s) -

Saskia Sassen

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

dissent

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154

H-Index - 18

eISSN - 1946-0910

pISSN - 0012-3846

DOI - 10.1353/dss.0.0014

Subject(s) - politics , power (physics) , executive power , management , political science , public administration , sociology , law , economics , physics , quantum mechanics

Even a president intent on redemocratizing our state will find it to be hard work. The growing power of the executive is a deeper problem than the combination of national security threats and abuses of power can explain. It is a process that began in the 1980s and goes beyond party politics—it is part of the structural evolution of the liberal state. The big question is how a president intent on redemocratizing our state will use today's greater power of the executive.

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