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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aRubin, Edward L.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBeyond Camelot :
_bRethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State /
_cEdward L. Rubin.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2007]
264 4 _c©2005
300 _a1 online resource (496 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tOne. Introduction --
_tPart I: The Structure of Government --
_tTwo. From Branches to Networks --
_tThree. From Power and Discretion to Authorization and Supervision --
_tFour. From Democracy to an Interactive Republic --
_tFive From Legitimacy to Compliance --
_tConclusion to Part I --
_tPart II. Legal Operations --
_tSix. From Law to Policy and Implementation --
_tSeven. From Legal Rights to Causes of Action --
_tEight. From Human Rights to Moral Demands on Government --
_tNine. From Property to Market-Generating Allocations --
_tConclusion to Part II --
_tNotes --
_tAuthor Index --
_tSubject Index
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThis book argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date.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, and then proposes a new conceptual framework, drawn from management science and engineering, which describes our administrative government more accurately, and identifies its weaknesses instead of merely bemoaning its modernity. This book's proposed framework envisions government as a network of connected units that are authorized by superior units and that supervise subordinate ones. Instead of using inherited, emotion-laden concepts like democracy and legitimacy to describe the relationship between these units and private citizens, it directs attention to the particular interactions between these units and the citizenry, and to the mechanisms by which government obtains its citizens' compliance. Instead of speaking about law and legal rights, it proposes that we address the way that the modern state formulates policy and secures its implementation. Instead of perpetuating outdated ideas that we no longer really believe about the sanctity of private property, it suggests that we focus on the way that resources are allocated in order to establish markets as our means of regulation. Highly readable, Beyond Camelot offers an insightful and provocative discussion of how we must transform our understanding of government to keep pace with the transformation that government itself has undergone.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aPolitical science.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
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