The Unwieldy American State

Download or read book The Unwieldy American State written by Joanna Grisinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unwieldy American State examines controversies over federal administrative law in the 1940s and 1950s. The seemingly arcane procedures used by federal administrative agencies to make rules, draft policies, and issue orders were a major political issue in the years following World War II, as politicians and lawyers tried to shape rules according to their own political preferences. Reforms changed both administrative operations and the public discussion surrounding them and made the administrative state more difficult to attack.