"This timely Second Edition of an important reference/text analyzes the increasing participation of federal courts in the area of public administration at all levels of government - presenting legal decisions based on how individuals actually encounter public administrators and discussing law in the contexts of the administration of social services, "street-level" enforcement, and public personnel management as well as prison and public mental health facilities."
"Previous edition, 2nd, published in 1997 ; first edition, 1983, entitled : Public administration and law : bench v. bureau in the United States."
"Since the first edition of Public Administration and Law was published in 1983, it has retained its unique status of being the only book in the field of public administration that analyzes how constitutional law regulates and informs the way administrators interact with each other and the public. Examining First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights as they pertain to these encounters, it explains how public administrators must do their jobs and how administrative systems must operate in order to comply with constitutional law. Explores the conflicts between lawsThe book begin."@en

Public administration and law