Condition: Near Fine; crisp clean copy, no markings; appears unread. Date: 1999. Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 019826870X 9780198268703 [GB]

Oxford University Press OUP , pp. 468 . Hardback. New. Oxford University Press OUP ISBN 019826870X 9780198268703 [US]

ISBN10: 019826870X, ISBN13: 9780198268703, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. The Executive in the Constitution: Structure, Autonomy, and Internal Control is the first constitutional and legal analysis of the inner workings of the executive for many years. It aims to provoke a reappraisal, by constitutional lawyers, of the place of the executive within the constitution, by exploring an area hitherto largely neglected in constitutional law: the legal foundations of the powers and structure of the executive, and the mechanisms throughwhich the centre of the executive seeks to control the actions of departments. The authors, both pre-eminent in the field off constitutional law, show that the machinery of executiveco-ordination and control is no less crucial a dimension of the constitutional order than the external machinery of democratic and legal control. These external parliamentary and judicial controls depend for their effectiveness on the executive's ability to control itself. The plural structure of the executive, however, makes the co-ordination and control of its component parts a highly problematical pursuit. Against the background of an analysis of the executive's legal structure, the bookexamines in detail the controls governing departmental access to staffing, financial, and legal resources, analysing the relationship between these internal controls and the external machinery ofdemocratic and legal control, and ...