| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) |
| Contents |
Push comes to shove -- Weak state, strong state, deep state -- The unitary executive -- Republican remedies -- Depth in staff -- Depth in norms -- Depth in knowledge -- Depth in appointment -- Depth in oversight -- A reckoning with depth |
| Summary |
"The American people have been enlisted in an eerie face-off, one all the more nightmarish for the way the competing specters play off one another. On one side is a Deep State conspiracy that threatens to thwart the will of the people and undercut the constitutional authority of the leader they elected. On the other side is a raw personalization of power, one that a theory of the unitary executive has gussied up and allowed to run roughshod over reason and the rule of law. These, we submit, are the phantom twins of a beleaguered republic. Each threat implicates the other in every central controversy of the Trump era. Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic argues that the Deep State and the unitary executive are two sides of the same syndrome, that the contest they frame speaks to basic issues of governance long suppressed, and that two distinct conceptions of authority are now drawing each other out to no good effect. The worry is that, left untamed, these phantom twins will continue to pull American government apart"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from title screen (viewed on April 26, 2021) |
| Subject |
Trump, Donald, 1946- -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Trump, Donald, 1946- fast |
| Subject |
Conspiracies -- United States.
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Executive power -- United States.
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Authoritarianism -- United States
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Authoritarianism
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Conspiracies
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Executive power
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021
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United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dearborn, John A., author
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King, Desmond S., author
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| LC no. |
2020026315 |
| ISBN |
9780197543092 |
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019754309X |
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9780197543115 |
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0197543111 |
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0197543103 |
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9780197543108 |
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