Political and social commentators regularly bemoan the decline of morality in the modern world. They claim that the norms and values that held society together in the past are rapidly eroding, to be replaced by permissiveness and empty hedonism. But as Edward Rubin demonstrates in this powerful account of moral transformations, these prophets of doom are missing the point. Morality is not diminishing; instead, a new morality, centered on an ethos of human self-fulfillment, is arising to replace the old one. As Rubin explains, changes in morality have gone hand in hand with changes in the prevailing mode of governance throughout the course of Western history. During the Early Middle Ages, a moral system based on honor gradually developed. In a dangerous world where state power was declining, people relied on bonds of personal loyalty that were secured by generosity to their followers and violence against their enemies. That moral order, exemplified in the early feudal system and in sagas like The Song of Roland, The Song of the Cid, and the Arthurian legends has faded, but its remnants exist today in criminal organizations like the Mafia and in the rap music of the urban ghettos. When state power began to revive in the High Middle Ages through the efforts of the European monarchies, and Christianity became more institutionally effective and more spiritually intense, a new morality emerged. Described by Rubin as the morality of higher purposes, it demanded that people devote their personal efforts to achieving salvation and their social efforts to serving the emerging nation-states. It insisted on social hierarchy, confined women to subordinate roles, restricted sex to procreation, centered child-rearing on moral inculcation, and countenanced slavery and the marriage of pre-teenage girls to older men. Our modern era, which began in the late 18th century, has seen the gradual erosion of this morality of higher purposes and the rise of a new morality of self-fulfillment, one that encourages individuals to pursue the most meaningful and rewarding life-path. Far from being permissive or a moral abdication, it demands that people respect each other's choices, that sex be mutually enjoyable, that public positions be allocated according to merit, and that society provide all its members with their minimum needs so that they have the opportunity to fulfill themselves. Where people once served the state, the state now functions to serve the people. The clash between this ascending morality and the declining morality of higher purposes is the primary driver of contemporary political and cultural conflict. A sweeping, big-idea book in the vein of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History, Charles Taylor's The Secular Age, and Richard Sennett's The Fall of Public Man, Edward Rubin's new volume promises to reshape our understanding of morality, its relationship to government, and its role in shaping the emerging world of High Modernity.

Soul, Self, and Society: The New Morality and the Modern State

History

Rubin, Edward L.

World

Oxford University Press

Provides in-depth coverage of the nature and evolution of modern payment instruments. Introduces the institutional framework of the modern payment system, including a glossary and framework of analysis, money and cash as payment, the business and legal background of checks, the development of the checking system, and the law governing checks. Covers the demise of interest rate restrictions, social equity, and the cost of accounts, including lifeline controversy; collection process for checks, payor, intermediary, returning bank, and the depository bank; loss allocation, the purpose of loss allocation rules, credit losses, error, fraud and forgery, credit car pricing, and electronic fund transfers.

The Payment System: Cases, Materials, and Issues (American Casebook Series)

Cooter, Robert

Rules & Procedures

West Group

Federalism is one of the most influential concepts in modern political discourse as well as the focus of immense controversy resulting from the lack of a single coherent definition. Malcolm M. Feeley and Edward Rubin expose the ambiguities of modern federalism, offering a powerful but generous treatise on the modern salience of the term.Malcolm Feeley and Edward Rubin have published an excellent book.” Sanford Levinson, University of Texas at AustinAt last, an insightful examination of federalism stripped of its romance. An absolutely splendid book, rigorous but still accessible.” Larry Yackle, Boston University
Professors Feeley and Rubin clearly define what is and is not federal system. This book should be required for serious students of comparative government and American government.” G. Ross Stephens, University of Missouri, Kansas City 
Feeley and Rubin have written a brilliant book that looks at federalism from many different perspectiveshistorical, political, and constitutional. Significantly expanding on their earlier pathbreaking work, they have explained the need for a theory of federalism and provided one. This is a must read book for all who are interested in the Constitution.” Erwin Chemerinsky, Duke University School of Law

Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise

Politics & Social Sciences

Feeley, Malcolm M.

Politics & Government

Univ of Michigan Pr

Between 1965 and 1990, federal judges in almost all of the states handed down sweeping rulings that affected virtually every prison and jail in the United States. Without a doubt judges were the most important prison reformers during this period. This book provides an account of this process, and uses it to explore the more general issue of the role of courts in the modern bureaucratic state. It provides detailed accounts of how the courts formulated and sought to implement their orders, and how this action affected the traditional conception of federalism, separation of powers, and the rule of law.

Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)

Social Sciences

Cambridge University Press

This book argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date. Developed in large part during the Middle Ages, they fail to confront the administrative character of modern government.
 These concepts, which include power, discretion, democracy, legitimacy, law, rights, and property, bear the indelible imprint of this bygone era's attitudes, and Arthurian fantasies, about governance. As a result, they fail to provide us with the tools we need to understand, critique, and improve the government we actually possess.
 Beyond Camelot explains the causes and character of this failure, and then proposes a new conceptual framework, drawn from management science and engineering, which describes our administrative government more accurately, and identifies its weaknesses instead of merely bemoaning its modernity.
 This book's proposed framework envisions government as a network of connected units that are authorized by superior units and that supervise subordinate ones. Instead of using inherited, emotion-laden concepts like democracy and legitimacy to describe the relationship between these units and private citizens, it directs attention to the particular interactions between these units and the citizenry, and to the mechanisms by which government obtains its citizens' compliance. Instead of speaking about law and legal rights, it proposes that we address the way that the modern state formulates policy and secures its implementation. Instead of perpetuating outdated ideas that we no longer really believe about the sanctity of private property, it suggests that we focus on the way that resources are allocated in order to establish markets as our means of regulation. Highly readable, Beyond Camelot offers an insightful and provocative discussion of how we must transform our understanding of government to keep pace with the transformation that government itself has undergone.

Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State

Princeton University Press

This book argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date. Developed in large part during the Middle Ages, they fail to confront the administrative character of modern government.
 These concepts, which include power, discretion, democracy, legitimacy, law, rights, and property, bear the indelible imprint of this bygone era's attitudes, and Arthurian fantasies, about governance. As a result, they fail to provide us with the tools we need to understand, critique, and improve the government we actually possess.
 Beyond Camelot explains the causes and character of this failure, and then proposes a new conceptual framework, drawn from management science and engineering, which describes our administrative government more accurately, and identifies its weaknesses instead of merely bemoaning its modernity.
 This book's proposed framework envisions government as a network of connected units that are authorized by superior units and that supervise subordinate ones. Instead of using inherited, emotion-laden concepts like democracy and legitimacy to describe the relationship between these units and private citizens, it directs attention to the particular interactions between these units and the citizenry, and to the mechanisms by which government obtains its citizens' compliance. Instead of speaking about law and legal rights, it proposes that we address the way that the modern state formulates policy and secures its implementation. Instead of perpetuating outdated ideas that we no longer really believe about the sanctity of private property, it suggests that we focus on the way that resources are allocated in order to establish markets as our means of regulation. Highly readable, Beyond Camelot offers an insightful and provocative discussion of how we must transform our understanding of government to keep pace with the transformation that government itself has undergone.

Philosophy

The Regulatory State provides an introduction to federal administrative agencies, statutes, and regulations. The book is designed for a dedicated first-year course, but is suitable for upper level courses. Carefully- selected primary source materials expose law students to a broad range of legal sources, and enable professors to teach through concrete applications, in a way comparable to the “case method.” Logically organized, accessible, and up-to-date, The Regulatory State not only provides excellent coverage of traditional topics such as legislation and statutory interpretation, but also focuses on how agencies make decisions and how political forces shape those decisions. A fresh and lively approach to a complex legal area, The Regulatory State features: <ul>
<li> a logical and informative organization of chapters that progresses from the common law as a regulatory regime, the introduction of legislation, to the dynamics statutory of implementation by courts and agencies </li> <li> a central example throughout the book—motor vehicle safety—that offers a familiar point of entry and enables professors to trace a single problem from beginning to end, helping to tie together various regulatory concepts </li> <li> primary materials drawn from actual statutes, regulations, executive order, and other documents, alongside judicial decisions </li> <li> the distinguished authors’ approach that highlights the tools and analyses that agencies, courts, and lawyers use </li> <li> selected materials from the best legal and political science work explaining the behavior of Congress, agencies, and courts </li> <li> contemporary and engaging excerpts from news articles, internet postings, and other media </li> <li> an electronic version of the book, included, that allows users to select their preferred content format </li> </ul>

The Regulatory State

Stack, Kevin M.

Bressman, Lisa Schultz

ASPEN PUB.

A contemporary collection of over 200 photographs of the people of Vermont and the extraordinary place where they live. Photographed by Edward L. Rubin, fine art photographer and Emmy award-winning art director and production designer.

Vermont : an Outsider's Inside View

F. A. Press

An accessible, central example--motor vehicle safety--provides a familiar entry point and thematic unity to The Regulatory State. Its tools-based approach to legislation, statutory interpretation, and agency implementation highlights the modes of argument and analysis that lawyers, courts, and agencies actually use. Selected materials from the best empirical studies and positive political theory show how Congress, federal agencies and courts make decisions in the regulatory area. Lively, contemporary excerpts from news articles, blogs, letters from government officials, and trade press books combine with selected primary source materials on regulatory government. Written by widely respected authors, The Regulatory State is organized in such a way that students better understand the many ways in which lawyers must engage with the institutions and legal materials of the modern regulatory state. The Second Edition expands coverage of basic administrative law issues with additional cases on separation of powers and judicial review of agency action. It also includes more primary source materials and teaching exercises. Features: <ul>
<li> an accessible example--motor vehicle safety--provides thematic unity </li> <li> tools-based approach highlights modes of argument and analysis that lawyers, courts, and agencies use </li> <li> selected materials from the best empirical studies and political theory show how Congress, federal agencies, and courts make decisions in the regulatory area </li> <li> practical treatment of statutory interpretation </li> <li> lively, contemporary excerpted material from articles, blogs, primary sources, and more </li> <li> organization helps students understand how lawyers engage with the institutions and legal materials of the regulatory state <ul>
<li> examines the common law as a regulatory regime </li> <li> introduces legislation </li> <li> exposes the dynamics of its implementation by courts and agencies </li> </ul>
</li> <li> high-profile authors <ul>
<li> Bressman and Stack: among the best young administrative law scholars in the country </li> <li> Rubin: former dean of Vanderbilt and a widely-respected scholar </li> </ul>
</li> </ul>
 Thoroughly updated, the revised Second Edition presents: <ul>
<li> expanded coverage of administrative law additional cases on separation of powers and judicial review of agency action </li> <li> second comprehensive example of regulation: tobacco regulation </li> <li> more primary source materials <ul>
<li> agency decisions in formal adjudications </li> <li> agency memos </li> <li> agency guidance and other advisory documents </li> </ul>
</li> <li> more teaching exercises </li> </ul>

The Regulatory State (Aspen Casebook Series)

Administrative Law

Wolters Kluwer/Law & Business

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Soul, Self, and Society: The New Morality and the Modern State

The Payment System: Cases, Materials, and Issues (American Casebook Series)

Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise

Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)

Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)

Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State

Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State

The Regulatory State

Vermont : an Outsider's Inside View

The Regulatory State (Aspen Casebook Series)