00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000009949 20210823122416 0010-0821000003 ta 210823################|##########|#|## 321.8 Rossiter, Clinton Constitutional dictatorship : crisis government in the modern democracies / Clinton Rossiter 1st Edition New York : Routledge, 2017 330p <a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315080536">e-book</a> Politics & International Relations 321.8 ROS c 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."