Public Law and Public Administration Author:Philip J. Cooper This well-established text provides students who plan to enter government service and those engaged in mid-career education for public administration with a readable and interesting treatment of the field of administrative law. The book is based on the premise that there is a complex, ongoing interaction between law and administration in the Uni... more »ted States and that administrative law problems are not only legal but also administrative and political. Recognizing that attacks on rules and administrative law processes over the last two decades have made this a difficult time for public managers and have resulted in a variety of new state and executive orders, the authors explain the sources, operation, and consequences of such changes.« less