Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive PowerReprint of the 1989 Free Press work on executive power. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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The Ambivalence of Executive Power | 1 |
The Executive as Kingship | 23 |
The Absent Executive in the Mixed | 45 |
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