Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship? (Update)
Sure, we all pay lip service to the Madisonian system of checks and balances. But presidents have been steadily expanding the reach of the job. With an election around the corner, we updated our 2016 conversation with the legal scholar Eric Posner — who has some good news and some not-so-good news about the power of the presidency. (Part one of a two-part series.)
Episode 260 of the Freakonomics Radio podcast, hosted by Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher, titled "Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship? (Update)" was published on October 10, 2024 and runs 46 minutes.
October 10, 2024 ·46m · Freakonomics Radio
Summary
Sure, we all pay lip service to the Madisonian system of checks and balances. But presidents have been steadily expanding the reach of the job. With an election around the corner, we updated our 2016 conversation with the legal scholar Eric Posner — who has some good news and some not-so-good news about the power of the presidency. (Part one of a two-part series.)
Episode Description
Sure, we all pay lip service to the Madisonian system of checks and balances. But presidents have been steadily expanding the reach of the job. With an election around the corner, we updated our 2016 conversation with the legal scholar Eric Posner — who has some good news and some not-so-good news about the power of the presidency. (Part one of a two-part series.)
- SOURCE:
- Eric Posner, professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School.
- RESOURCES:
- "Presidential Leadership and the Separation of Powers," by Eric Posner (Daedalus, 2016).
- The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic, by Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule (2010).
- EXTRA:
- "Does the President Matter as Much as You Think?" by Freakonomics Radio (2020).
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