This book focuses on the essentials that public managers should know about administrative law—why we have administrative law, the constitutional constraints on public administration, and administrative law's frameworks for rulemaking, adjudication, enforcement, transparency, and judicial and legislative review. Rosenbloom views administrative law from the perspectives of administrative practice, rather than lawyering with an emphasis on how various administrative law provisions promote their underlying goal of improving the fit between public administration and U.S. democratic-constitutionalism. Organized around federal administrative law, the book explains the essentials of administrative law clearly and accurately, in non-technical terms, and with sufficient depth to provide readers with a sophisticated, lasting understanding of the subject matter.
David H. Rosenbloom is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, DC. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago (1969) and holds a BA in Political Science and an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Marietta College (1964, 1994).
Before moving to American University, he taught at Syracuse University146s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (1978-1990), where he was named the first Distinguished Professor in the School146s history, the University of Vermont (1973-1978), Tel Aviv University (1971-1973), and the University of Kansas (1969-1970).
In 1970-1971 he was an American Society for Public Administration Fellow in the Office of Federal Equal Employment Opportunity at the U.S. Civil Service Commission. He served as editor in chief of
Public Administration Review (1991-1996) and coeditor in chief of the
Policy Studies Journal (1985-1990). Rosenbloom is the 2001 recipient of the American Political Science Association146s John Gaus Award 147to honor the recipient146s lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration and, more generally, to recognize achievement and encourage scholarship in public administration.148
Other awards include ASPA146s 1999 Dwight Waldo Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Literature and Leadership of Public Administration through an Extended Career; Outstanding Service Award, School of Public Affairs, American University (1999);