Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos

How a deliberate dismantling of political institutions undermines the essential work of government

In this unsettling book, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum trace how ungoverning—the deliberate effort to dismantle the capacity of government to do its work—has become a malignant part of politics. Democracy depends on a government that can govern, and that requires what’s called administration. The administrative state is made up of the vast array of departments and agencies that conduct t...