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
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-387) and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 31, 2017)
