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Peter Augustine Lawler is professor of political science at Berry College in Georgia. His most recent book is Poets, Princes, and Private Citizens (Rowman & Littlefield), which he edited with Joseph Knippenberg.Robert Martin Schaefer is associate professor of political science at the University of Mobile. He edited The American Experiment (Rowman & Littlefield), with Peter Lawler.David Lewis Schaefer is professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Montaigne.

This collection is an excellent set of readings designed to stimulate critical thought about the enduring problem of the administrator's role in a democratic political system.

• Chapter 1 PrefacePart 2 Part I. Some Fundamental ConcernsChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 American Statesmanship: Old and NewChapter 5 Toqueville on Administration and for AdministratorsChapter 6 Public Administration and Policy Deliberation: The Case of Global WarmingChapter 7 Impartiality and Administrative StatesmanshipChapter 8 Theodore Lowi and the Administrative StatePart 9 Part II. Administration, Political Institutions, and the ConstitutionChapter 10 IntroductionChapter 11 Bureaucratic Idealism and Executive Power: A Perspective on The Federalist’s View of Public AdministrationChapter 12 Administrative Responsibility and the Separation of PowersChapter 13 The Rhetorical Presidency and the Eclipse of Executive Power in Woodrow Wilson’s Constitutional Government in the United StatesChapter 14 Presidents and Their Cosmopolitan Advisors: The Nixon-Kissinger DialogueChapter 15 Limiting Bureaucratic Discretion: Competing Theories of Administrative LawPart 16 Part III. Rebuilding Public AdministrationChapter 17 IntroductionChapter 18 The Place of Constitutionalism in the Education of Public AdministratorsChapter 19 The Limits of Ethics: Revisiting the Origins of the America RegimeChapter 20 Bureaucratic Morality in the United StatesChapter 21 Responsibility and Public ServiceChapter 22 Index