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The Public’s Law: Origins and Architecture of Progressive Democracy

By Blake Emerson ’07. The Public’s Law is a theory and history of democracy in the American administrative state. The book describes how American Progressive thinkers—such as John Dewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Woodrow Wilson—developed a democratic understanding of the state from their study of Hegelian political thought.