The Public's Law: Origins and Architecture of Progressive Democracy

by 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190682876
• ISBN13: 9780190682873
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"