Administrative Law For Public Managers

by David H. Rosenbloom

This book focuses on the essentials that public managers should know about administrative law—why we have administrative law, the constitutional constraints on public administration, and administrative law's frameworks for rulemaking, adjudication, enforcement, transparency, and judicial and legislative review. Rosenbloom views administrative law from the perspectives of administrative practice, rather than lawyering with an emphasis on how various administrative law provisions promote their underlying goal of improving the fit between public administration and U.S. democratic-constitutionalism. Organized around federal administrative law, the book explains the essentials of administrative law clearly and accurately, in non-technical terms, and with sufficient depth to provide readers with a sophisticated, lasting understanding of the subject matter.

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2003

Reviews

[Amber]

Administrative law has been a glaring hole in my education and thus was a good intro to it.

[Chris Cole]

Rosenbloom does a great job synthesizing the concepts of administrative law and weaving them into a coherent overview of the field.

Great read for public administrators looking for a ground-level understanding of the role that administrative law plays in public management.

[Kate]

Academic, but really helpful for understanding public administration.

[Samy]

If I have to read it, I might as well get a goodreads tick out of it

[Steven Peterson]

Public managers should know something about administrative law as a survival strategy. This volume, authored by the well known scholar David Rosenbloom, is a useful tool for public managers. He covers key issues in administrative law in a manner that provides guidance for public managers. A rich resource and well worth perusing.