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The Administrative State is Dwight Waldo's classic public administration text based on a dissertation written at Yale University.In the book, Waldo argues that democratic states are underpinned by professional and political bureaucracies and that scientific management and efficiency is not the core idea of government bureaucracy, but rather it is service to the public.
Thoughts on Government; Thoughts on Machiavelli; A Thousand Small Sanities; Three Principles of the People; Traité sur les apparitions des esprits et sur les vampires ou les revenans de Hongrie, de Moravie, &c. The True Law of Free Monarchies; Two Concepts of Liberty; Two Tracts on Government; Two Treatises of Government; The Tyranny of Guilt
One of the more notable ideas Mill puts forth in the book is that the business of government representatives is not to make legislation. Instead, Mill suggests that representative bodies such as parliaments and senates are best suited to be places of public debate on the various opinions held by the population and to act as watchdogs of the ...
Law, Legislation and Liberty is a book by Hayek that was written from 1963 to 1978. It offers a diagnosis of the problems facing classical liberal social order and suggests alternatives. The book includes critiques of legal positivism, interest-group politics, and the pursuit of social justice. Hayek argues that the pursuit of social justice ...
The book Thoughts on Government by John Adams (1776). Thoughts on Government, or in full Thoughts on Government, Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies, was written by John Adams during the spring of 1776 in response to a resolution of the North Carolina Provincial Congress which requested Adams' suggestions on the establishment of a new government and the drafting of a ...
The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.The strategy aims to utilize "militant anti poverty groups" to facilitate a "political crisis" by overloading the welfare system via an increase in welfare claims, forcing the creation of a system of guaranteed minimum income and ...
John Locke, a liberal philosopher, was an important theorist of liberal government. Writing in his Two Treatises of Government, Locke reasoned that men living in a state of nature would voluntarily join in a social contract, forming a "commonwealth" or government. Locke further reasoned that the powers of the government had to be restricted to ...
A form of government where the monarch is elected, a modern example being the King of Cambodia, who is chosen by the Royal Council of the Throne; Vatican City is also often considered a modern elective monarchy. Self-proclaimed monarchy: A form of government where the monarch claims a monarch title without a nexus to the previous monarch dynasty.