The Reasoning State

Name: The Reasoning State
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108725392
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Author: Edward H. Stiglitz
ISBN: 9781108725392

By Edward H. Stiglitz

Cambridge University Press March 2023

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ISBN-13: 9781108725392
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: March 2023
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

1. Introduction: The reasoning state

2. Reasoning and distrust: State architecture in complex societies

3. Instruments of credible reasoning: The role of administrative law

4. The reform era: Rise of the reasoning state

5. The reasoning constraint

6. Reasoning dividends

7. Diagnosing the administrative state

8. Lessons applied

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