TY - BOOK AU - Emerson,Blake TI - Public's law : origins and architecture of progressive democracy T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780190682903 AV - KF5402 .E46 2019 U1 - 342.7306 23 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Oxford University Press KW - Administrative law KW - United States KW - Philosophy KW - Public administration KW - Progressivism (United States politics) KW - Influence KW - Law KW - German influences KW - Politics and government N1 - Previously issued in print: 2019; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 'The Public's Law' is a theory and history of democracy in the American administrative state. The text describes how American Progressive thinkers - such as John Dewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Woodrow Wilson - developed a democratic understanding of the state from their study of Hegelian political thought. G.W.F. Hegel understood the state as an institution that regulated society in the interest of freedom UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190682873.001.0001 ER -