Unmasking the administrative state : the crisis of American politics in the twenty-first century / John Marini ; edited by Ken Masugi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marini, John A., author.

Contributor:

Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.

Masugi, Ken, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Politics and government.

Bureaucracy--United States.

Bureaucracy.

Political culture--United States.

Political culture.

Physical Description:

337 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Other Title:

Crisis of American politics in the 21st century

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2019.

Summary:

"The election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency shocked the political establishment, triggering a wave of hysteria among the bicoastal elite that may yet never subside. The biggest shockwaves of all however were felt not in the progressive parishes of Manhattan or San Francisco, but in the halls of the political elite's cherished and oft-overlooked center of power: Washington, D.C.'s sprawling 'administrative state.' For President Trump represented an existential threat to its denizens, which came to be known as 'swamp creatures.' How did it come to pass that the 'deconstruction' of this obscure institution - the 'draining of the swamp' - would become a core aim of the Trump administration, impacting everything from judicial appointments to the federal budget and regulatory policy? Could public aversion to policies and practices for which the administrative state was sometimes surreptitiously and other times overtly responsible explain President Trump's rise? What was the intellectual basis for the argument that the administrative state need be dismantled in the first place? The answers to these questions and many more lie in the underappreciated but revolutionary scholarship of Professor John Marini, collected in his timely, comprehensive, accessible new book, Unmasking the Administrative State"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Hunting the administrative state

Our abandoned Constitution

Donald Trump and the American crisis

Congress: Reluctant defender of the administrative state

State or Constitution? The political conditions of bureaucratic rule: the executive, Congress, and the courts under the administrative state

Budgets, separation of powers, and the rise of the administrative state

Progressivism, immigration, and the transformation of American citizenship

Politics, rhetoric, and legitimacy: The Role of bureaucracy in the Watergate Affair

Tocqueville's centralized administration and the "New Despotism"

On Harvey Mansfield's Jefferson lecture: How to understand politics

Roosevelt's or Reagan's America? A time for choosing

Theories of the legislature: The changing character of the American Congress

Progressivism, the social sciences, and the rational state

Wisdom and moderation: Leo Strauss's On Tyranny; Modern thought and its "unmanly contempt for politics"

Trump and the future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-330) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Marini, John A. Unmasking the administrative state.

ISBN:

9781641770231

1641770236

OCLC:

1048658113

Publisher Number:

99979926722