Dubnick, Mel, and Annelva Rowland. “Administrative Efficiency and Responsibility Under Juridical Democracy: The Regulation Filing Process in Kansas.” Paper presented at the 1982 Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, San Antonio, March 18–20.
Abstract: Since its first publication in 1969, Theodore J. Lowi’s The End of Liberalism has had significant impact on the study of American government. One of the more intriguing yet underexamined contributions of the work was Lowi’s analytic advocacy of a five-part program for reform, characterizing his program as “Modest Proposals for Radical Reform” and prescribing a new public philosophy which he terms “juridical democracy.” This paper examines the tension between administrative efficiency and democratic accountability within a juridical democracy framework, using the Kansas regulation filing process as an empirical case.