Administrative Law and Politics: Cases and Comments - Softcover

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Harrington and Carter know that bureaucratic government is no cure for the shortcomings of free enterprise, yet understand that government oversight and regulation is crucial to keeping power within democratic boundaries. For students who will soon embark on jobs in government, the private sector, or non-governmental organizations, this proven casebook will help lay a foundation of knowledge for effective decision making and critical evaluation of ethics in the rule of law. At its heart, the book aims to alert students to the tremendous scope and power of administrative government and to how the legal system shapes administrative procedure and practice.

Now in its fourth edition, Administrative Law and Politics continues to balance case excerpts and commentary, and has been thoroughly updated to account for recent developments, such as:

  • the centralization of executive powers
  • the impact of privatization on administrative accountability
  • the public’s interest when government services and provisions are outsourced
  • the expansion of investigatory powers under FISA and the legal challenge brought by the ACLU
  • the range of legal procedures that are commonly found in administrative practices, such as university sexual harassment procedures
  • the conflicts of interest when policy regarding future administrative rules is not open and transparent, as in the case of Cheney v. District Court for the District of Columbia

New cases include Kelo v. City of New London, FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., United States v. Mead Corporation, Dow Chemical Company v. United States, and Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency. Updated end-of-chapter exercises and questions encourage students to consider the majority and dissenting opinions in recent and highly controversial cases such as Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Gratz v. Bollinger.

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About the Author:
Christine B. Harrington is professor of politics at New York University; she is also affiliated with the Institute for Law and Society and New York University School of Law. She is the author of Shadow Justice: The Ideology and Institutionalization of Alternatives to Court and editor of Lawyers in a Postmodern World: Translation and Transgression (with Maureen Cain) and The Presidency in American Politics (with Paul Brace and Gary King). Her publications have appeared in Social and Legal Studies, Law and Policy, Law and Society Review, and Journal of Law and Policy, among others. She received the APSA Law and Courts Section’s Teaching and Mentoring Award in 2004, and she is co-founder and chair of the Consortium on Graduate Law and Society Programs.

Lief H. Carter served as Colorado College’s McHugh Distinguished Professor of American Institutions and Leadership from 1995 to 2004. He taught at the University of Georgia from 1973 to 1995. He is the author of Reason in Law, Seventh Edition and has published major texts in constitutional law, legal reasoning, and administrative law. He was the first faculty member at the University of Georgia to receive the top award for teaching intwo different years, and he has won national awards and recognition from the American Political Science Association.

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  • PublisherCQ Press
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 0872899349
  • ISBN 13 9780872899346
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages552
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