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Who governs the US in an emergency, and with what limits and authority? This fascinating study shows the answer is not simple. . . . A pathbreaking guide to what likely will be a recurrent problem in American politics. --Jack Goldstone, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University Describing the crazy quilt of state and local emergency powers, their problematic definitions, and the questions of accountability and representation, Who Governs convincingly makes the case for rethinking how and when we employ emergency powers. --Henry E. Brady, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley Officials have invoked extraordinary emergency powers that most of us did not know they even had, at the cost of democratic accountability. . . . Will government by emergency decree become the new normal? --Michael W. McConnell, Richard & Frances Mallery Professor, Stanford Law School, and director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center

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Morris P. Fiorina is the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution. His most recent book was Unstable Majorities (Hoover Institution Press, 2017).

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