03450nam 2200601 450 991055428150332120230630002207.01-5036-2862-010.1515/9781503628625(CKB)4100000011921050(MiAaPQ)EBC6606034(Au-PeEL)EBL6606034(OCoLC)1250075650(DE-B1597)588955(OCoLC)1242022172(DE-B1597)9781503628625(EXLCZ)99410000001192105020220115d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe specter of dictatorship judicial enabling of presidential power /David M. DriesenStanford, California :Stanford University Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (249 pages)Stanford studies in law and politicsIncludes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 AVOIDING TYRANNY AT THE FOUNDING -- 2 THE RISE OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER -- 3 DECLINING TO ADJUDICATE CLAIMS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT -- 4 IMPLIED PRESIDENTIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL POWER -- 5 THE SPECTER OF DICTATORSHIP: Poland, Hungary, and Turkey -- 6 PARALLELS TO AMERICA’S DEMOCRATIC EROSION -- 7 JUDICIAL TREATMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER IN AN AGE OF DEMOCRATIC DECLINE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEXReveals how the U.S. Supreme Court's presidentialism threatens our democracy and what to do about it. Donald Trump's presidency made many Americans wonder whether our system of checks and balances would prove robust enough to withstand an onslaught from a despotic chief executive. In The Specter of Dictatorship, David Driesen analyzes the chief executive's role in the democratic decline of Hungary, Poland, and Turkey and argues that an insufficiently constrained presidency is one of the most important systemic threats to democracy. Driesen urges the U.S. to learn from the mistakes of these failing democracies. Their experiences suggest, Driesen shows, that the Court must eschew its reliance on and expansion of the "unitary executive theory" recently endorsed by the Court and apply a less deferential approach to presidential authority, invoked to protect national security and combat emergencies, than it has in recent years. Ultimately, Driesen argues that concern about loss of democracy should play a major role in the Court's jurisprudence, because loss of democracy can prove irreversible. As autocracy spreads throughout the world, maintaining our democracy has become an urgent matter.Stanford studies in law and politics.PresidentsUnited StatesHungary.Poland.Turkey.autocracy.checks and balances.emergency powers.national security.presidential power.separation of power.unitary executive theory.Presidents352.230973Driesen David M.1154770MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910554281503321The specter of dictatorship2815974UNINA