1. Consecration of the Law and Demotion of the Executive

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: From one Democracy to Another 1
4. PART I. Executive Power
5. 1. Consecration of the Law and Demotion of the Executive 23
6. 2. The Cult of Impersonality and Its Metamorphoses 32
7. 3. The Age of Rehabilitation 45
8. 4. Two Temptations 59
9. PART II. The Presidentialization of Democracies
10. 5. The Pioneering Experiments: 1848 and Weimar 75
11. 6. From Gaullist Exception to Standard Model 91
12. 7. Unavoidable and Unsatisfactory 104
13. 8. Limiting Illiberalism 114
14. PART III. A Democracy of Appropriation
15. 9. The Governed and Their Governors 127
16. 10. Legibility 146
17. 11. Responsibility 172
18. 12. Responsiveness 190
19. PART IV. A Democracy of Trust
20. 13. The Good Ruler in Historical Perspective 209
21. 14. Truthfulness 224
22. 15. Integrity 243
23. Conclusion: The Second Democratic Revolution 261
24. Notes 271
25. Index 329