LEADER 04295nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910465224103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15851-1 010 $a9786612158513 010 $a1-4008-2662-4 010 $a0-691-11808-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826629 035 $a(CKB)2560000000324401 035 $a(EBL)457898 035 $a(OCoLC)438926875 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000110848 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11145459 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000110848 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10064940 035 $a(PQKB)10654617 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457898 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36342 035 $a(DE-B1597)446411 035 $a(OCoLC)979631811 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826629 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457898 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312444 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215851 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000324401 100 $a20040330d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond Camelot$b[electronic resource] $erethinking politics and law for the modern state /$fEdward L. Rubin 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (479 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13397-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [341]-453) and indexes. 327 $apt. 1. The structure of government -- pt. 2. Legal operations. 330 $aThis book argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date. Developed in large part during the Middle Ages, they fail to confront the administrative character of modern government. These concepts, which include power, discretion, democracy, legitimacy, law, rights, and property, bear the indelible imprint of this bygone era's attitudes, and Arthurian fantasies, about governance. As a result, they fail to provide us with the tools we need to understand, critique, and improve the government we actually possess. Beyond Camelot explains the causes and character of this failure, and then proposes a new conceptual framework, drawn from management science and engineering, which describes our administrative government more accurately, and identifies its weaknesses instead of merely bemoaning its modernity. This book's proposed framework envisions government as a network of connected units that are authorized by superior units and that supervise subordinate ones. Instead of using inherited, emotion-laden concepts like democracy and legitimacy to describe the relationship between these units and private citizens, it directs attention to the particular interactions between these units and the citizenry, and to the mechanisms by which government obtains its citizens' compliance. Instead of speaking about law and legal rights, it proposes that we address the way that the modern state formulates policy and secures its implementation. Instead of perpetuating outdated ideas that we no longer really believe about the sanctity of private property, it suggests that we focus on the way that resources are allocated in order to establish markets as our means of regulation. Highly readable, Beyond Camelot offers an insightful and provocative discussion of how we must transform our understanding of government to keep pace with the transformation that government itself has undergone. 606 $aState, The$xHistory 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aPublic administration$xHistory 606 $aBureaucracy$xHistory 606 $aRule of law$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aState, The$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPublic administration$xHistory. 615 0$aBureaucracy$xHistory. 615 0$aRule of law$xHistory. 676 $a320/.01 686 $a88.02$2bcl 700 $aRubin$b Edward L.$f1948-$0920940 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465224103321 996 $aBeyond Camelot$92443247 997 $aUNINA