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Author: Ross Sandler Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300129130 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 288
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As the 21st century dawns, public land policy is entering a new era. This timely book examines the historical, scientific, political, legal, and institutional developments that are changing management priorities and policies - developments that compel us to view the public lands as an integrated ecological entity and a key biodiversity stronghold. Once the background is set, each chapter opens with a specific natural resource controversy, ranging from the Pacific Northwest's spotted owl imbroglio to the struggle over southern Utah's Colorado Plateau country. Robert Keiter uses these case histories to analyse the ideas, forces, and institutions that are both fomenting and retarding change. Although Congress has the final say in how the public domain is managed, the public land agencies, federal courts, and western communities are each playing important roles in the transformation to an ecological management regime. At the same time, a newly emergent and homegrown collaborative process movement has given the public land constituencies a greater role in administering these lands. Arguing that we must integrate the new imperatives of ecosystem science with our devolutionary political tendencies, Keiter outlines a coherent new approach to natural resources policy.
Author: Ross Sandler Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300129130 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
As the 21st century dawns, public land policy is entering a new era. This timely book examines the historical, scientific, political, legal, and institutional developments that are changing management priorities and policies - developments that compel us to view the public lands as an integrated ecological entity and a key biodiversity stronghold. Once the background is set, each chapter opens with a specific natural resource controversy, ranging from the Pacific Northwest's spotted owl imbroglio to the struggle over southern Utah's Colorado Plateau country. Robert Keiter uses these case histories to analyse the ideas, forces, and institutions that are both fomenting and retarding change. Although Congress has the final say in how the public domain is managed, the public land agencies, federal courts, and western communities are each playing important roles in the transformation to an ecological management regime. At the same time, a newly emergent and homegrown collaborative process movement has given the public land constituencies a greater role in administering these lands. Arguing that we must integrate the new imperatives of ecosystem science with our devolutionary political tendencies, Keiter outlines a coherent new approach to natural resources policy.
Author: James L. Hirsen Publisher: ISBN: 9781563841668 Category : Executive orders Languages : en Pages : 0
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In this book, noted author and attorney, James L. Hirsen discloses vital information that every person needs to know concerning the hidden power that lurks within the executive branch of government. Do you know what awesome powers are available to the President through executive orders already on the books? Hirsen shows how easy a new law can be put into force without the approval of Congress.
Author: John M. Carey Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521597227 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 350
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This book offers a theory that predicts when executives should turn to decree and when legislatures should accept this method of policy-making.
Author: Ruth P. Morgan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 346
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965, which originally was intended to prohibit barriers to black registration and voting, has been hailed as a triumph for civil rights and as a catalyst for the election of minorities to public office in both the Deep South and the urban North. To advance its objective, federal courts instructed many cities to change from at-large to single-member district electoral systems as a way to ensure that minorities had a reasonable chance to elect representatives of their choice. In the first book to critique the implementation of this landmark legislation in a major American city, Ruth Morgan examines its effect on local governance over forty years in Dallas and shows that it had unintended consequences for racial politics, representation, and public policy. Breaking from studies that measure the success of the VRA in terms of increased minority representation, Morgan assesses the consequences of the Act for Dallas city government—and for the wider interests of minorities as well. While endorsing the original intent of the VRA, Morgan believes that this intent was subverted by subsequent amendments to the Act and by the courts' attempts to advance the political standing of particular minority groups. She argues that court-imposed single-member districts have created in Dallas a city council infected with parochialism and careerism—a result of members no longer having to compromise to win citywide votes—and have had an adverse impact on governmental effectiveness and voter turnout. With corruption and cronyism now rampant, voting rights legislation and litigation have ultimately failed to fulfill the hopes and aspirations of the unempowered, and the district system has created an incentive for continued racial separation. Governance by Decree offers a pointed assessment of the complexities and contradictions produced by the voting rights law, while at the same time calling for the federal judiciary to exercise restraint in imposing its will when it lacks the capacity to make choices that are inherently political. Morgan's powerfully argued case study should inspire much debate and inform forthcoming congressional deliberations over the renewal of the preclearance section of the VRA in 2007.
Author: Alain Supiot Publisher: Hart Publishing ISBN: 9781509907779 Category : Allegiance Languages : en Pages :
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In search of a machine of government -- The fortunes of an ideal: ruling by law -- Other perspectives on law -- The dream of social harmony by numbers -- The development of normative uses of quantification -- The law geared to numbers : from the gosplan to the total market -- Calculating the incalculable : the law and economics doctrine -- The encroachment of governance on law -- The limits of governance by numbers -- The withering-away of the state -- The return of "rule by men"--"Genuinely human work in humane conditions" -- "Genuinely human work in humane conditions" -- The structure of ties of allegiance
Author: House of God, Which is the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth Without Controversy Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 84
Author: Giorgio Agamben Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226009262 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 108
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Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or "state of exception," has historically been an underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into totalitarian states. The sequel to Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, State of Exception is the first book to theorize the state of exception in historical and philosophical context. In Agamben's view, the majority of legal scholars and policymakers in Europe as well as the United States have wrongly rejected the necessity of such a theory, claiming instead that the state of exception is a pragmatic question. Agamben argues here that the state of exception, which was meant to be a provisional measure, became in the course of the twentieth century a normal paradigm of government. Writing nothing less than the history of the state of exception in its various national contexts throughout Western Europe and the United States, Agamben uses the work of Carl Schmitt as a foil for his reflections as well as that of Derrida, Benjamin, and Arendt. In this highly topical book, Agamben ultimately arrives at original ideas about the future of democracy and casts a new light on the hidden relationship that ties law to violence.
Author: Cass R. Sunstein Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674247531 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 209
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From two legal luminaries, a highly original framework for restoring confidence in a government bureaucracy increasingly derided as “the deep state.” Is the modern administrative state illegitimate? Unconstitutional? Unaccountable? Dangerous? Intolerable? American public law has long been riven by a persistent, serious conflict, a kind of low-grade cold war, over these questions. Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule argue that the administrative state can be redeemed, as long as public officials are constrained by what they call the morality of administrative law. Law and Leviathan elaborates a number of principles that underlie this moral regime. Officials who respect that morality never fail to make rules in the first place. They ensure transparency, so that people are made aware of the rules with which they must comply. They never abuse retroactivity, so that people can rely on current rules, which are not under constant threat of change. They make rules that are understandable and avoid issuing rules that contradict each other. These principles may seem simple, but they have a great deal of power. Already, without explicit enunciation, they limit the activities of administrative agencies every day. But we can aspire for better. In more robust form, these principles could address many of the concerns that have critics of the administrative state mourning what they see as the demise of the rule of law. The bureaucratic Leviathan may be an inescapable reality of complex modern democracies, but Sunstein and Vermeule show how we can at last make peace between those who accept its necessity and those who yearn for its downfall.
Author: Jerry L. Mashaw Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108421008 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 213
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Explains how administrative government maintains mutual respect among citizens, legitimates administrative government under law, and supports a realistic vision of democracy.
Author: Ross Sandler
Author: Ross Sandler
Author: James L. Hirsen
Author: John M. Carey
Author: Ruth P. Morgan
Author: Alain Supiot
Author: House of God, Which is the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth Without Controversy
Author: Giorgio Agamben
Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Author: Government of Aruba
Author: Jerry L. Mashaw