Administrative bodies, not legislatures, are the primary lawmakers in our society. This book develops a theory to explain this fact based on the concept of trust. Drawing upon Law, History and Social Science, Edward H. Stiglitz argues that a fundamental problem of trust pervades representative institutions in complex societies. Due to information problems that inhere to complex societies, the public often questions whether the legislature is acting on their behalf―or is instead acting on the behalf of narrow, well-resourced concerns. Administrative bodies, as constrained by administrative law, promise procedural regularity and relief from aspects of these information problems. This book addresses fundamental questions of why our political system takes the form that it does, and why administrative bodies proliferated in the Progressive Era. Using novel experiments, it empirically supports this theory and demonstrates how this vision of the state clarifies prevailing legal and policy debates.
Author(s): Edward H. Stiglitz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 529
City: Cambridge
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01.0_pp_i_ii_The_Reasoning_State
02.0_pp_iii_iii_The_Reasoning_State
03.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page
04.0_pp_v_v_Contents
05.0_pp_vi_vii_Figures
06.0_pp_viii_x_Acknowledgments
07.0_pp_1_20_Introduction
08.0_pp_21_70_Reasoning_and_Distrust
08.1_pp_59_67_Analytical_Appendix
08.2_pp_68_70_Patterns_in_Legislation
09.0_pp_71_100_Instruments_of_Credible_Reasoning
10.0_pp_101_136_The_Reform_Era
11.0_pp_137_188_The_Reasoning_Constraint
11.1_pp_178_183_Appendices
11.2_pp_184_188_Appendices
12.0_pp_189_242_Reasoning_Dividends
13.0_pp_243_269_Diagnosing_the_Administrative_State
14.0_pp_270_295_Lessons_Applied
15.0_pp_296_308_Index
