Unpacking the "Administrative State"

In section 1.1, we introduced the term administrative state to refer to the collection of agencies that are the focus of administrative law. In this section, we want to unpack that umbrella concept just a little bit. We'll do that in two ways: 1) by inquiring into the reasons that agencies, and by extension the administrative state, exist in the first place, and 2) by uncovering the variety of agencies and the work they do.

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