The purpose of this chapter is to explore, critically and systematically, contemporary public administration scholarship as it pertains to national administrative law. To be clear from the outset, our aim is not to examine legal scholarship about public administration, but, rather, to understand...

Intro -- Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Separated We Stand -- 2 That Old-Time Religion -- 3 Orthodoxy and Its Discontents -- 4 Raising the Bar: Law and the Administrative Process -- 5 A Theory of Politically Responsive Bureaucrats -- 6 Managerial Responsibility: A Precept...

How does representative government function when public administration can reshape democracy? The traditional narrative of public administration balances the accountability of managers, a problem of control, with the need for effective administration, a problem of capability. The discretion...