Imperial Power, Executives, Origins, and Functions

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel brings together a variety of perspectives on power within the hands of an executive, and how that power was originally cast, how it has been used, and concerns about the use of executive power. The question of the extreme use (or abuse) of presidential power remains a constant concern, as these papers examine the historical and comparative dimensions of these concerns. Papers address the royalist basis for presidential power, particularly in the American structure. They also explore hyperpresidentialism in a comparative context.

Sub Unit

• Division 23: Presidents and Executive Politics

Individual Presentations

• Respect the Office of the President: Origins and Implications of a Royalist Idea - Kevin Evans, Florida International University; Clement Fatovic, Florida International University

• The Unitary Executive Theory and the Presidency of Donald J. Trump - Graham G. Dodds, Concordia University

• Hyperpresidentialism in the Southern Cone of Latin America - Dan Berbecel, York University

Chair

• Daniel E. Ponder Drury University

Discussants

• Lara Michelle Brown The George Washington University

• Kira Pronin University of Pittsburgh