The third edition of this highly respected textbook introduces students of public administration to the practical issues of administrative law. While useful to law school students, it is most relevant to public management students. The presentation provides a concise foundation to the history and theory of administrative law, rule making, and judicial decisions. The most important issues in administrative law are included-meaningful issues for present and future administrators. A larger number of recent cases and other up-to-date information will be found in the book in order to make the student aware of the kinds of legal problems likely to be encountered in public agencies. One or two cases illustrate each problem at hand, rather than discussing numerous arcane court decisions and technicalities of legal procedure, in order to sketch the broad contours of the present law.

This book analyzes the evolution and operation of political institutions in Russia from its emergence from the shadow of the disintegrating Union of Soviet Socialist Republic through its first decade as an independent state. Emphasizing structures and problems, the main topics treated are constitutional development, presidential-parliamentary relations, electoral politics, the party system, and the search for a workable federalism, including descriptions of principal people and events.

Combining a journalist's view of major trials with a political-legal analysis, this text gives a picture of the politics of justice in Russia. Coverage of major court cases ranges from the 1961 trial of the currency speculators to the Communist Party trial of 1992.