Administrative Law for Public Managers - 9781032300436

Taylor & Francis

This book focuses on the essentials that public administration students and public managers should know about administrative law\u2014why we have administrative law, the constitutional structure for and constraints on public administration, and administrative law\u2019s formats for rulemaking, adjudication, enforcement, transparency, and judicial and legislative review of administrative activity. Author David Rosenbloom views administrative law from the perspectives of administrative practice, rather than lawyering, with an emphasis on how various administrative law provisions promote their underlying goals of improving the fit between public administration and US democratic-constitutionalism. Organized around federal administrative law while including material on state practices where appropriate, the book explains the essentials of administrative law clearly and accurately, in non-technical terms, and in sufficient depth to provide readers with a sophisticated, lasting understandin.