The Public’s Law: Origins and Architecture of Progressive Democracy 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190682873,0190682876,9780190682897, 0190682892

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• ISBN-10: 0190682892
• ISBN-13: 9780190682897
• Author: Blake Emerson

The Public’s Law is a theory and history of democracy in the American administrative state. The book 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. This normative account of the state distinguished his view from later German theorists, such as Max Weber, who adopted a technocratic conception of bureaucracy, and others, such as Carl Schmitt, who prioritized the will of the chief executive. The Progressives embraced Hegel’s view of the connection between bureaucracy and freedom, but sought to democratize his concept of the state. They agreed that welfare services, economic regulation, and official discretion were needed to guarantee conditions for self-determination.

Table contents:

1. Origins of Progressivism: German Theories of the State from Hegel to Habermas

2. The Hegelian Progressives: Democratic Spirit in the New American State

3. The Institutional Architecture of Progressive Democracy: From the New Deal to the Second Reconstruction

4. The Normative Architecture of Progressive Democracy: Reconstructing the Administrative State

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