Views of Administrative Law
-Legal idealists – about defining public values and designing institutions to implement them; value transparency and process
-democratic liberalism – concerned w/ rule of law, so emphasizes accountability
-normative pluralism – concerned w/ ensuring access to diverse groups of policy/interest groups (shift here post new deal)
-Realist – question whether public-oriented goals of legal ideologists can be instituted and question behavioral motivation of agency heads
-critical theory – admin about power dynamics of socio-economic class (lesser focus on dynamics of race and gender)
-public choice/positive political theory – legislation embodies the interest of groups with proper incentives to mobilize and wield influence
-politics is a market for legislation
-based on assumption that all actors behave rationally to maximize wealth, status and power
-lobbying when there are narrowly dispersed benefits or costs