ABSTRACT
How should the United States be governed during times of crisis? Definitely not as we are in times of tranquility, asserts this classic study. The war on terrorism is a case in point. The horrors of terror attacks on the United States have forced Americans to accept legislative changes that might be unthinkable at other times. The "inescapable truth," Clinton Rossiter wrote in his classic study of modern democracies in crisis, is that "No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake."
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |28 pages
Constitutional Dictatorship
part One|45 pages
Constitutional Dictatorship in the German Republic
part Two|55 pages
Crisis Government in the French Republic
part Three|75 pages
Crisis Government in Great Britain
part Four|108 pages
Crisis Government in the United States