Administrative Law in a Global Era. (book reviews)

Public administration is arguably the most diverse or ill-defined subdiscipline in political science. (Some, of course, view it as a separate discipline.) The three books reviewed here are illustrative of that diversity in their subject matter. They include public authorities and their challenge to responsible government, executive leadership, and administrative law as a legal and political product. Topics of significance and of interest to various specialists, they are difficult to tie together. Only limited effort will here be given to that task.

In Shadow Government, which has ...

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