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Review of the public’s law: Origins and architecture of progressive democracy

Review of the public’s law: Origins and architecture of progressive democracy ADMINISTRATIVE THEORY & PRAXIS 2021, VOL. 43, NO. 3, 376–378 BOOK REVIEW Blake Emerson (Ed.). The public’s law: Origins and architecture of progressive democracy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. pp. xii, 276. In this study of the Hegelian roots of American progressive democracy, law, and politics scholar Blake Emerson attends specifically to the effort of progressive thinkers to construct an American administrative state on modern democratic principles. The progressive aim was to ensure broad public sway not just in law making, but in law’s implementation and impact. The progressives well recognized, the author contends, that much of modern demo- cratic governance would take place in the realm of administration, and he shows the reach, and limitations, of their thinking in examples from the agricultural programs of the New Deal and the community action and equal employment opportunity programs of the 1960s. By shedding light on this “normative architecture of progressive democracy” (p. vii), the author aims to chart a path toward reconstruction of the American administrative state. Several key themes, concepts, and arguments in the book deserve the attention of students of public administration, especially those interested in normative theories of the state and public administration. First, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Administrative Theory & Praxis Taylor & Francis

Review of the public’s law: Origins and architecture of progressive democracy

Cook, Brian J.
Administrative Theory & Praxis , Volume 43 (3): 3 – Jul 3, 2021
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Review of the public’s law: Origins and architecture of progressive democracy

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ADMINISTRATIVE THEORY & PRAXIS 2021, VOL. 43, NO. 3, 376–378 BOOK REVIEW Blake Emerson (Ed.). The public’s law: Origins and architecture of progressive democracy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. pp. xii, 276. In this study of the Hegelian roots of American progressive democracy, law, and politics scholar Blake Emerson attends specifically to the effort of progressive thinkers to construct an American administrative state on modern democratic principles. The...
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1949-0461
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10.1080/10841806.2020.1829259
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ADMINISTRATIVE THEORY & PRAXIS 2021, VOL. 43, NO. 3, 376–378 BOOK REVIEW Blake Emerson (Ed.). The public’s law: Origins and architecture of progressive democracy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. pp. xii, 276. In this study of the Hegelian roots of American progressive democracy, law, and politics scholar Blake Emerson attends specifically to the effort of progressive thinkers to construct an American administrative state on modern democratic principles. The progressive aim was to ensure broad public sway not just in law making, but in law’s implementation and impact. The progressives well recognized, the author contends, that much of modern demo- cratic governance would take place in the realm of administration, and he shows the reach, and limitations, of their thinking in examples from the agricultural programs of the New Deal and the community action and equal employment opportunity programs of the 1960s. By shedding light on this “normative architecture of progressive democracy” (p. vii), the author aims to chart a path toward reconstruction of the American administrative state. Several key themes, concepts, and arguments in the book deserve the attention of students of public administration, especially those interested in normative theories of the state and public administration. First,

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