Now revised and updated in a fifth edition, this comprehensive text explores the role of administrative law in public policy from a social sciences rather than a legal perspective.
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Now revised and updated in a fifth edition, this comprehensive text explores the role of administrative law in public policy from a social sciences rather than a legal perspective.
Previous editions published : 4th (2004), and 1st (1982).
Emphasizing that administrative law must be understood within the context of the political system, this core text combines a descriptive systems approach with a social science focus. Author Kenneth F. Warren explains the role of administrative law in shaping, guiding, and restri…
"Despite the reforms of the past several decades, more change is needed if the public sector is to be capable of producing effective and accountable government."--Back cover
"States of emergency are declared by governments with alarming frequency. When they are declared, it is taken for granted that their nature is understood. This book argues against this established view. Instead, the view advanced here, analyzes what makes emergencies different f…
This book seeks to elucidate its subject--the governing of democratic states--by making intelligible the party politics of democracies.--From foreword.
This book seeks to elucidate its subject--the governing of democratic states--by making intelligible the party politics of democracies.--From foreword.
De Tocqueville once wrote that 'insufferable despotism' would prevail if America ever acquired a national administrative state. Between 1900 and 1940, radicals created vast bureaucracies that continue to trample on individual freedom. Ernst shows, to the contrary, that the natio…