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Subject(s)

• Administrative law—United States—Philosophy [Browse]
• Public administration—United States—Philosophy [Browse]
• Progressivism (United States politics)—Influence [Browse]
• Law—United States—German influences [Browse]
• United States—Politics and government [Browse]

Series

Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

'The Public's Law' is a theory and history of democracy in the American administrative state. The text describes how American Progressive thinkers - such as John Dewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Woodrow Wilson - developed a democratic understanding of the state from their study of Hegelian political thought. G.W.F. Hegel understood the state as an institution that regulated society in the interest of freedom.

Notes

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Yale University, 2016) issued under title: Between public law and public sphere : reconstructing the American Progressive theory of the administrative state.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Introduction
• Origins of progressivism : German theories of the state from Hegel to Habermas
• The Hegelian progressives : democratic spirit in the new American state
• The institutional architecture of progressive democracy : from the New Deal to the Second Reconstruction
• The normative architecture of progressive democracy : reconstructing the administrative state
• Looking for the wrong kind of rationality
• Conclusion.

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ISBN

• 0-19-068289-2
• 0-19-068290-6
• 0-19-068288-4

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