TY - BOOK AU - Cohn,Margit TI - A theory of the executive branch: tension and legality T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780191861154 (ebook) : AV - JF251 U1 - 342.062 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Executive power KW - Western countries KW - Executive departments KW - Separation of powers KW - Democracy KW - Philosophy KW - Politics and government N1 - This edition also issued in print: 2021; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - This monograph offers a theoretical foundation of the executive branch in Western democracies and argues that the tension between dominance and submission is maintained by the adoption of various forms of fuzziness, under which a guise of legality masks the absence of the substantive limitation of power UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821984.001.0001 ER -