This book argues that, in a democracy, a constitutional separation of powersbetween the executive and the assembly may be a good thing, but the constitu-tional concentration of executive power in a single human being—what I callexecutive personalism—is not.This thesis may seem plausible, perhaps too plausible to be interesting.Yet almost the entire democratic world is dominated by only thre…
In all the talk about the Paris Agreement, reached at the twenty-first Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in 2015, it is sometimes forgotten that the world’s political leaders have held negotiations about climate change at the highest possible level for at least three decades. Many have known about …
any people associate Building with Nature with its flagship project, the Sand Motor. This mega-nourishment redefined the role of natural processes in civil engineering projects, demonstrating that instead of ‘do no harm’ as the highest possible supporting goal of coastal infrastructure, the design could incorporate natural processes to attain societal and ecological goals. As such, the Sand…