Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration

2001 Louis Brownlow Award from the National Academy of Public Administration Reimagining public administration through the lens of constitutional governance and legislative intent. Before 1946 the congressional role in public administration had been limited to authorization, funding, and review of federal administrative operations, which had grown rapidly as a result of the New Deal and the Second World War. But in passing the Administrative Procedure Act and the Legislative Reorganization Act t