}Administrative law has such a major impact on public administration that it cannot be left to the lawyers alone. One does not need to be a lawyer to learn or teach it from the perspectives of public management. The purpose of this book is to make administrative law more accessible to public administration students. As its title indicates, the book focuses on the essentials that public managers should know about administrative law–why we have administrative law, the constitutional constraints on public administration, and administrative law’s frameworks for rulemaking, adjudication, enforcement, transparency, and judicial and legislative review. The book views administrative law from the perspectives of administrative practice, rather than lawyering. One will not find chapters on “getting into court” and “staying in court” here (Fox 2000). Instead, the emphasis is on how various administrative law provisions promote their underlying goal of improving the fit between public administration and U. S. democratic-constitutionalism.The discussion is organized around federal administrative law, which, in general, is more elaborate than state-level equivalents. Where appropriate, state approaches are noted as alternatives to federal practices. After reading the book, one should have a firm grip on federal administrative law and no difficulty learning the administrative law of any particular state. Unlike most administrative law texts, the book neither contains legal cases nor devotes much attention to the development of case law. Federal court decisions are readily available on Internet sites, such as www findlaw.com, and can be flexibly selected by instructors to augment the text. Books dealing comprehensively with case law tend toward overkill in general public administrative education, sometimes running a thousand pages or more. The purpose of this book is to explain the essentials of administrative law clearly and accurately, in non-technical terms, and with sufficient depth to provide readers with a sophisticated, lasting understanding of the subject matter. It is intended for classroom use in two ways. First, as a supplement, it will efficiently cover the main dimensions of administrative law in general introductory public administration courses and in those on bureaucratic politics or political context of public management. Second, it can serve as a core text in public administration courses dealing with administrative law or the legal basis of public administration. As a core text, it could be coupled with one on constitutional law and selected legal cases of the instructor’s choice. It is unlikely that the book will be used in law school classes, though law students may find it blissfully concise and helpful in explaining the political and administrative contexts and larger purposes of administrative law. }
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About the Author
David H. Rosenbloom is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, DC. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago (1969) and holds a BA in Political Science and an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Marietta College (1964, 1994).
Before moving to American University, he taught at Syracuse University146s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (1978-1990), where he was named the first Distinguished Professor in the School146s history, the University of Vermont (1973-1978), Tel Aviv University (1971-1973), and the University of Kansas (1969-1970).
In 1970-1971 he was an American Society for Public Administration Fellow in the Office of Federal Equal Employment Opportunity at the U.S. Civil Service Commission. He served as editor in chief of
Public Administration Review (1991-1996) and coeditor in chief of the Policy Studies Journal (1985-1990). Rosenbloom is the 2001 recipient of the American Political Science Association146s John Gaus Award 147to honor the recipient146s lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration and, more generally, to recognize achievement and encourage scholarship in public administration.148
Other awards include ASPA146s 1999 Dwight Waldo Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Literature and Leadership of Public Administration through an Extended Career; Outstanding Service Award, School of Public Affairs, American University (1999); Thomas Dye Award for Outstanding Service to the Policy Studies Organization (1996); Outstanding Scholar Award, School of Public Affairs, American University (1994 and 2000); Charles Levine Memorial Award for Excellence in Public Administration, ASPA- National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) (1993); Distinguished Research Award (APSA-NASPAA) (1992); and the Syracuse University Chancellor146s Citation for Academic Excellence (1986).
Rosenbloom was elected to the National Academy of Public Administration in 1986. In 1992 he was appointed to the Clinton-Gore Presidential Transition Team for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Rosenbloom writes extensively about public administration and democratic constitutionalism. Major authored or co-authored titles include
Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector; Public Administration and Law; Representative Bureaucracy and the American Political System; Bureaucratic Government, USA; Federal Equal Employment Opportunity; Federal Service and the Constitution; and Building A Legislative-Centered Public Administration: Congress and the Administrative State, 1946-1999, which received the 2001 National Academy of Public Administration Louis Brownlow Award for Excellence in Public Administration Literature.
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