The Founders, the Constitution, and Public Administration: A Conflict in World Views

by Michael W. Spicer

Book Overview

Viewed alternately as an obstacle to justice, an impediment to efficient government, and a tool by which some groups gain benefits and privileges at the expense of others, public administration threatens to become the whipping boy of American government. In this innovative look at the nation's bureaucracy, Michael W. Spicer revisits the values of the Constitution in order to reconcile the administrative state to its many critics. Drawing on political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878405828
• ISBN13: 9780878405824
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher