The Fourth Branch Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic

Brian J. Cook, "The Fourth Branch: Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic "
English | ISBN: 0700632077 | 2021 | 288 pages | EPUB | 779 KB
In The Fourth Branch: Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic Brian J. Cook confronts head-on the accumulating derangements in the American constitutional system and how the administrative state has contributed to the problems, how it has been a key force in addressing the troubles, and how it can be reformed to serve the system better. The Fourth Branch is anchored in a powerful theory of regime design that guides a freshly comprehensive account of the historical development of successive political economies and administrative states in the United States and provides the normative grounding for more far-reaching constitutional change. Cook calls for a decisive, pattern-breaking response in the form of a constitutional redesign to accommodate a fourth branch, an administrative branch.