Daniel R Ernst

Tocqueville's Nightmare

The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900-1940. Sprache: Englisch.

gebunden , 240 Seiten

ISBN 0199920869

EAN 9780199920860

Veröffentlicht Mai 2014

Verlag/Hersteller Oxford University Press

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Beschreibung

Between 1900 and 1940, Americans confronted a puzzle: how could administrative agencies address the nation's troubles without violating individual liberty? From the close reasoning of judges, the self-interest of lawyers, and the machinations of politicians, an answer emerged.

Portrait

Trained as a lawyer and a historian, Daniel R. Ernst has been a member of the faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center since 1988. His first book, Lawyers against Labor (1995), won the Littleton Griswold Award of the American Historical Association. He has been a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, a Fulbright Research Scholar at the National Library of New Zealand, and, from 2006-2010, a co-editor of 'Studies in Legal History,' a book series sponsored by the American Society for Legal History. He writes on the political history of American legal institutions.

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