Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos

by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum

Book Overview

How a concentrated attack on political institutions threatens to disable the essential workings of government

In this unsettling book, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum trace how ungoverning--the deliberate effort to dismantle the capacity of government to do its work--has become a malignant part of politics. Democracy depends on a government that can govern, and that requires what's called administration. The administrative state...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691250529
• ISBN13: 9780691250526
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"