The executive and public law : power and accountability in comparative perspective
"This book addresses two sets of questions that are under-researched in constitutional scholarship. First, what is the proper scope of executive authority, how is executive power delimited, and how should it be defined? Secondly, how is executive authority best held to account, politically and legally? These questions are both descriptive and normative and they are addressed accordingly in each of the chapters by leading public lawyers from a variety of jurisdictions. The book examines executive power in the United Kingdom from a British and from a distinctively Scottish perspective. There are chapters on the four common law jurisdictions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States; on the four civil law jurisdictions of France, Germany, Italy, and Spain; and on the European Union. This insightful comparative perspective allows themes to be drawn together, and lessons extracted on the nature of executive power and its accountability."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2006
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006