Fudan-Arab Lecture Series No.22

复旦—Arab讲座系列第22期

Title/题目: 

The Rise and Fall of the Administrative State in America

美国行政国家的兴起与变迁

Speaker/主讲人: 

Bert A. Rockman, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Purdue University

Bert A. Rockman 普渡大学政治学荣休教授

Host/主持人: 

Prof. Yijia Jing, Fudan IGPP

敬乂嘉教授 复旦全球公共政策研究院

Time/时间: 

12:00-13:20, May 28, Wednesday, 2025

2025年5月28日 周三 12:00-13:20

Venue/地点: 

Room 805E, 8th Floor, West Sub-building of Guanghua Towers

光华楼西辅楼8楼805E会议室

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主讲人介绍/ The Speaker：

Bert A. Rockman is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Purdue University and former Head of the Department. Previously, he was The University Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh, a Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, and Director of the School of Public Policy and Management at The Ohio State University. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and has been a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASS) and a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and Hebrew University (Jerusalem). He has been co-editor of the journal Governance, President of the Presidential Studies Section of the American Political Science Association and President of the Midwest Caucus for Public Administration. He received the Richard E. Neustadt Award for best book on the U.S. Presidency and the Herbert Simon Award for Scientific Contributions to the Study of Bureaucracy.

讲座内容/ Abstract:

This lecture explores the ambiguous role of the executive branch of government in the United States from its constitutional origins through the development of a professional civil service, the vast growth of the administrative state and its professionalization to the rise of the Unitary Executive Theory (UET) which claims that the president has exclusive control over executive and enforcement powers. Since the Nixon Presidency (1969-74), there is substantial difference in the extent to which presidents have been amenable or hostile to the administrative state and its independence. The reasons for this will be explored. Special attention will be given to the most recent developments under the second Trump Presidency which has been especially aggressive in seeking to curtail the independence of the professionals in government.