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14 - Governments

from Part IV - State Institutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2019

By
Philipp Dann
Edited by
Roger Masterman  and
Robert Schütze
Roger Masterman
Affiliation:
University of Durham
Robert Schütze
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

Governments can pose a threat to constitutional authority. As institutions, they pre-date constitutional regimes and are structurally least sympathetic to its limitations. Their sceptical predisposition towards constitutionalism has only grown in the twentieth and twenty-first century, when the rise of the bureaucratic state and internationalization coupled with government-led international law-making have only heightened the potential dominance of executive power. Functions and competences of governments are hence a central battlefield of constitutional calibration.

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The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law , pp. 361 - 390
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Beyme, K. von, Parliamentary Democracy: Democratization, Destabilization, Reconsolidation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).Google Scholar
Blondel, J. and Müller-Rommel, F. (eds.), Governing Together (Palgrave, 1993).Google Scholar
Böckenförde, E.-W., Die Organisationsgewalt im Bereich der Regierung (Duncker & Humblot, 1964).Google Scholar
Craig, P. and Tomkins, A. (eds.), The Executive and Public Law: Power and Accountability in Comparative Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2005).Google Scholar
Fombad, C. (ed.), Separation of Powers in African Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2016).Google Scholar
Gargarella, R., Latin American Constitutionalism, 1810–2010: The Engine Room of the Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2013).Google Scholar
Helms, L., Presidents, Prime Ministers and Chancellors: Executive Leadership in Western Democracies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).Google Scholar
Hess, S., Organizing the Presidency, 3rd ed. (Brookings, 2002).Google Scholar
Poguntke, T. and Webb, P. (eds.), The Presidentialization of Politics: A Comparative Study of Modern Democracies (Oxford University Press, 2005).Google Scholar
Laski, H., The American Presidency, 1940 (Transaction, 1980).Google Scholar
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Sartori, G., Comparative Constitutional Engineering, 2nd ed. (New York University Press, 1997).Google Scholar

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  • Governments
  • Edited by Roger Masterman, University of Durham, Robert Schütze, University of Durham
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law
  • Online publication: 30 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316716731.015
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  • Edited by Roger Masterman, University of Durham, Robert Schütze, University of Durham
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law
  • Online publication: 30 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316716731.015
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  • Governments
  • Edited by Roger Masterman, University of Durham, Robert Schütze, University of Durham
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law
  • Online publication: 30 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316716731.015
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