Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970

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Through a broad and unusual cast of characters-from American social scientists and legal academics, to German refugee intellectuals, to the philosopher John Rawls-Debating the American State shows that the "leviathan" administrative state was never given a proper and principled justification by the liberals who built and supported it. Abstract: Through a broad and unusual cast of characters-from American social scientists and legal academics, to German refugee intellectuals, to the philosopher John Rawls-Debating the American State shows that the "leviathan" administrative state was never given a proper and principled justification by the liberals who built and supported it.  Read more... Content: Leviathan and its discontents -- Democracy and accountability in the administrative state -- The rule of law when the state goes to war -- Liberal democracy conducts an occupation and a war crimes tribunal -- Individual autonomy and the modern American state: the philosophy of John Rawls.