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Administrative State Bibliography

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Books about the administrative state
The following table features Ballotpedia's bibliography of books about the administrative state:
Books about the administrative state | |||
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Author | Title | Details | Related work |
Philip Hamburger | Is Administrative Law Unlawful? | University of Chicago Press, 2014. 648 pages. | •Review of Is Administrative Law Unlawful? Adrian Vermeule. Texas Law Review, 2015. •Response: “Vermeule Unbound.” Philip Hamburger. Texas Law Review, 2016. |
Philip Hamburger | The Administrative Threat | Encounter Intelligence, 2017. 68 pages. | •Review of The Administrative Threat. Scott Johnson. Power Line, June 26, 2017. |
Ernest Gellhorn and Ronald Levin | Administrative Law and Process in a Nutshell (5th ed.) | West Academic Publishing, 2006. 534 pages. | -- |
Emmett McGroarty, Jane Robbins, and Erin Tuttle | Deconstructing the Administrative State | Liberty Hill Publishing, 2017. | •Review: "Populism and the Administrative State.” Paul Mirengoff. Power Line, Jan. 8, 2018. •Review: “The Politics of the Administrative State.” Stanley Kurtz. National Review, Jan. 8, 2018. |
Paul D. Moreno | The Bureaucrat Kings: The Origins and Underpinnings of America’s Bureaucratic State | Praeger, 2016. 204 pages. | •Review: “How the Ruling Class Rules.” John Marini. Claremont Review of Books, Feb. 8, 2018. |
Joseph Postell | Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State’s Challenge to Constitutional Government | University of Missouri Press, 2017. | •Review: “A New Classic in Administrative Skepticism.” Jeffrey Pojanowski. Law and Liberty, March 13, 2018. |
Stephen Skowronek, Stephen M. Engel, and Bruce Ackerman | The Progressives’ Century: Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State | Yale University Press, 2016. 544 pages. | •Review: “Hundred Years’ War.” Bradley C.S. Watson. Claremont Review of Books, Feb. 8, 2018. |
Adrian Vermeule | Law’s Abnegation: From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State | Harvard University Press, 2016. 272 pages. | •Review: “Pangloss and the Bureaucrats." Jonathan Adler. National Review, February 6, 2017. •Review: "Lions Under the Bureaucracy: Defending Judicial Deference to the Administrative State." Evan Bernick, Federalist Society Review, 2017. |
Articles about the administrative state
The following table features Ballotpedia's bibliography of scholarly articles about the administrative state:
Articles about the administrative state | ||
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Author | Title | Details |
Jonathan H. Adler | "Restoring Chevron’s Domain" | Case Research Paper Series in Legal Studies Working Paper 2016-30, February 2017 (revised). |
Kent Barnett | "Against Administrative Judges" | UC Davis Law Review, June 2016. |
Zachary Callen | "Repurposing the Administrative State" | 'The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics, 2017. |
Ronald Cass | "Delegation Reconsidered: A Delegation Doctrine for the Modern Administrative State" | Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy Vol. 40, Issue 1. April 2017. 53 pages. |
Charles J. Cooper | "Confronting the Administrative State" | National Affairs, Fall 2015. |
Christopher DeMuth | "The Regulatory State" | National Affairs, Summer 2012. |
Stephen P. Dresch | "Administrative Law: The 20th Century Bequeaths an "Illegitimate Exotic in Full and Terrifying Flower" | Publisher: Cornerstone, February 2000. |
John C. Eastman | "The President’s Pen and the Bureaucrat’s Fiefdom" | Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy Vol. 40, Issue 3. June 2017. 24 pages. |
Richard Epstein | "Why the Modern Administrative State is Inconsistent with the Rule of Law" | New York University Journal of Law and Liberty Vol. 491 (2008). 26 pages. |
Edward L. Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer | "The Rise of the Regulatory State" | Journal of Economic Literature, June 2003. |
Steven F. Hayward | "The Threat to Liberty" | Claremont Review of Books. February 2017; Volume XVII, Number 1, Winter 2016/17. |
Gary Lawson | "The Rise and Rise of the Administrative State" | Harvard Law Review Vol. 107, No. 6. 23 pages. |
Ronald J. Pestritto | "The Progressive Origins of the Administrative State: Wilson, Goodnow, and Landis" | Social Philosophy and Policy Vol. 24, Issue 1. January 2007. 38 pages. |
Ronald J. Pestritto | "The Birth of the Administrative State: Where It Came From and What It Means for Limited Government" | Heritage Foundation, November 2007, 16 pages. |
Joseph Postell | "From Administrative State to Constitutional Government" | Heritage Foundation. December 14, 2012. |
Bernard Schwartz | "The Administrative Agency in Historical Perspective" | Indiana Law Journal Vol. 263 (1961). 20 pages. |
George Stigler | "The Theory of Economic Regulation" | The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring, 1971). |
Peter L. Strauss | "Formal and Functional Approaches to Separation-of-Powers Questions: A Foolish Inconsistency?" | Cornell Law Review Vol. 488 (1987). 40 pages. |
Peter L. Strauss | The Place of Agencies in Government: Separation of Powers and the Fourth Branch" | Columbia Law Review. Volume 84. 97 pages. |
Cass R. Sunstein | "Constitutionalism after the New Deal" | Harvard Law Review, 1987. |
Adrian Vermeule | "Bureaucracy and Distrust: Landis, Jaffe, and Kagan on the Administrative State" | Harvard Law Review, 2017. |
Bruce Yandle | "Bootleggers and Baptists: The Education of a Regulatory Economist" | Regulation, May 1, 1983. |
Expert interviews
- Q&A with Philip Hamburger. Scott Johnson. Power Line, July 7, 2014.
Other media
- The Future of the Administrative State. Podcast series. Hosted by Tony Mills at RealClearPolicy, 2017.
- "The U.S. Regulatory Review Process." Slideshow presentation by Shagufta Ahmed. OIRA/OMB, April 24, 2017.
- “A Revolution in Administrative Law.” Podcast and article. Richard A. Epstein. Hoover Institution, January 16, 2017.
- "Regulatory Glossary". Glossary of terms related to the federal regulatory process. The Regulatory Group, 2016.
- "A Glossary of Political Economy Terms." Dr. Paul M. Johnson. Auburn University, Copyright 1994-2005.
- "The Reg Map: Informal Rulemaking." ICF Consulting/Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Copyright 2003.
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