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Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State
Edward L. Rubin
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Description for Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State
Paperback. Argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date. This work explains the causes and character of this failure, and then proposes a new conceptual framework, which describes our administrative government, and identifies its weaknesses instead of merely bemoaning its modernity. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 33. Weight in Grams: 774.
This book argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date.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. As a result, they fail to provide us with the tools we need to understand, critique, and improve the government we actually possess. Beyond Camelot explains the causes and character of this failure, ... Read more
This book argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date.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. As a result, they fail to provide us with the tools we need to understand, critique, and improve the government we actually possess. Beyond Camelot explains the causes and character of this failure, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691133973
SKU
V9780691133973
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About Edward L. Rubin
Edward L. Rubin is dean of Vanderbilt University Law School. He is the author of "Judicial Policymaking and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons and Federalism: A Theoretical Inquiry", both with Malcolm Feeley. He has served as a legal consultant to the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China.
Reviews for Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State
"This ambitious work offers a refreshing, insightful reconceptualization of the modern administrative state... [A] beautifully written contribution."
Harvard Law Review "[A] fascinating and provocative book... Rubin is to be congratulated. Beyond Camelot is an extraordinary effort, brilliant in places; it is certain to provoke a great deal of thought and suggest numerous avenues of future research."
Howard Schweber, Journal of Politics "Anyone ... Read more
Harvard Law Review "[A] fascinating and provocative book... Rubin is to be congratulated. Beyond Camelot is an extraordinary effort, brilliant in places; it is certain to provoke a great deal of thought and suggest numerous avenues of future research."
Howard Schweber, Journal of Politics "Anyone ... Read more