Unwieldy American State - Administrative Politics Since the New Deal

Informationen zum Autor Joanna L. Grisinger is currently a senior lecturer in the Legal Studies program at Northwestern University. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Policy History. She has received fellowships and research support from Clemson University, the University of Chicago, the Miller Center of Public Affairs, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, the Harry S. Truman Library Institute and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association. Klappentext The Unwieldy American State examines controversies over federal administrative law in the 1940s and 1950s. Zusammenfassung Examines controversies over federal administrative law in the 1940s and 1950s. The arcane procedures used by federal administrative agencies to make rules! draft policies and issue orders were a major political issue in the years following World War II. Reforms changed both administrative operations and the debates surrounding them. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The war at home; 2. A 'Bill of Rights' for the administrative state; 3. Congress's watchful eye; 4. The Hoover administration and the 80th Congress; 5. The stymied transformation of administrative law.

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• Authors: Joanna Grisinger, Joanna L. Grisinger, Joanna L. (Northwestern University Grisinger, GRISINGER JOANNA L, Grisinger Joanna L.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107004320
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00432-0
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LAW / Constitutional, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1950 to c 1959, History of the Americas, Constitutional and administrative law: general