The transformation of American public law: Promotion and regulation in California, 1950-1990.

摘要

This dissertation explores the conflict between promotional and regulatory conceptions of public administration. By tracing developments in water, pesticides, and labor law in California since World War II, the dissertation shows that the persistent power of the promotional paradigm of public administration has been an important obstacle to the successful incorporation of regulatory values into public law. By pointing to the strong parallels between promotional policies and Utilitarianism, the dissertation also shows that arguments for government promotion of economic activity suffer from the same lack of attention to distributive justice for which Utilitarianism has been criticized in contemporary philosophical discourse.