Bureaucracy in America The Administrative State’s Challenge to Constitutional Government / Joseph Postell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Postell, Joseph.

Series:

Studies in constitutional democracy.

Studies in constitutional democracy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration--United States--History.

Bureaucracy--United States--History.

Administrative agencies--United States--History.

Separation of powers--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Columbia, MO : 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."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction.

Chapter One: An Improved Science of Administration: Administration and the American Founding

Chapter Two: Well-Regulated and Free: Administration and Constitutionalism in the Early Republic

Chapter Three: Executive-Centered Administration: Administrative Law and Constitutionalism during the Jacksonian Era

Chapter Four: The Beginning of Bureaucracy? Administrative Power after the Civil War

Chapter Five: A New Science of Administration: Progressivism and the Administrative State

Chapter Six: The Crisis of Legitimacy: The New Deal Challenge to American Constitutionalism

Chapter Seven: “A Surrogate Political Process”: The 1970s Administrative Law Revolution

Chapter Eight: The Conservative Counterrevolution? The Rise of a Jurisprudence of Deference

Conclusion: The Ongoing Crisis of Legitimacy.

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826273789

0826273785

OCLC:

995849591