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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Contents
The Ambivalence of Executive Power | 1 |
The Executive as Kingship | 23 |
The Absent Executive in the Mixed | 45 |
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| Title | Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power Johns Hopkins paperback |
| Author | Harvey Claflin Mansfield |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 20 Nov 2009 |
| ISBN | 0801845890, 9780801845895 |
| Length | 358 pages |
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