Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State

by Edward L. Rubin

Book Overview

This book argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date. Developed in large part during the Middle Ages, they fail to confront the administrative character of modern government.

These concepts, which include power, discretion, democracy, legitimacy, law, rights, and property, bear the indelible imprint of this bygone era's attitudes, and Arthurian fantasies, about governance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691133972
• ISBN13: 9780691133973
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"