TY - BOOK ID - 5384954 TI - The executive and public law : power and accountability in comparative perspective AU - Craig, Paul P. AU - Tomkins, Adam PY - 2006 SN - 0199285594 9780199285594 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Executive power KW - Pouvoir exécutif KW - Pouvoir exécutif KW - Royaume-Uni KW - Canada KW - Australie KW - Nouvelle-Zélande KW - États-Unis KW - France KW - Italie KW - Allemagne KW - Espagne KW - Droit public KW - Droit comparé KW - Droit constitutionnel KW - Séparation des pouvoirs KW - Études comparatives KW - Pays de l'Union européenne KW - Pays de common law KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Compétence KW - Etats-Unis KW - Écosse (GB) KW - Union européenne UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5384954 AB - For most of the past two hundred years or more - the grand era of national constitution-making - founding fathers and constitutional scholars alike seem to have focused more sharply on questions of legislative power than they have on executive power. Executive power, by contrast, they worried much less about and sought to delimit less thoroughly. The scope of executive power and its accountability are however endemic problems, which arise within federal andnon-federal states. Nor are these issues unique to common law constitutional orders. Problems concerning the nature and delimitation of executive power also arise in civil law jurisdictions and in the European Union. Despite the historical constitutional focus on legislative power, it is executive authoritywhich seems in the early 21st-century to be the more threatening.This book addresses two sets of questions that are under-researched in constitutional scholarship. What is the proper scope of executive authority, how is executive power delimited, and how should it be defined? 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 theUnited 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. Thisinsightful comparative perspective allows themes to be drawn together, and lessons extracted on the nature of executive power and its accountability. ER -