Bureaucracy in America : the administrative state's challenge to constitutional government / Joseph Postell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Postell, Joseph, 1979- author.

Series:

Studies in constitutional democracy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bureaucracy--United States--History.

Bureaucracy.

Public administration--United States--History.

Public administration.

Administrative agencies.

History.

United States.

Administrative agencies--United States--History.

Separation of powers--United States--History.

Separation of powers.

Physical Description:

xii, 403 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2017]

Summary:

"The rise of the administrative state is the most significant political development in American politics over the past century. While our Constitution separates powers into three branches, and requires that the laws are made by elected representatives in the Congress, today most policies are made by unelected officials in agencies where legislative, executive, and judicial powers are combined. This threatens constitutionalism and the rule of law. This book examines the history of administrative power in America and argues that modern administrative law has failed to protect the principles of American constitutionalism as effectively as earlier approaches to regulation and administration"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

An improved science of administration : administration and the American founding

Well-regulated and free : administration and constitutionalism in the early republic

Executive-centered administration : administrative law and constitutionalism during the Jacksonian era

The beginning of bureaucracy? administrative power after the Civil War

A new science of administration : progressivism and the administrative state

The crisis of legitimacy : the New Deal challenge to American constitutionalism

A surrogate political process : the 1970s administrative law revolution

The conservative counterrevolution? the rise of a jurisprudence of deference

The ongoing crisis of legitimacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-387) and index.

ISBN:

9780826221230

0826221238

OCLC:

969862816

Publisher Number:

99972578725